Day one, London

Today was the first day in London. I'm jet lagged.

I found the Heathrow Express, it is a subway. 20 pounds for a one way ticket to Paddington. This is where I was instructed to go to meet David. A man I had never seen before, but my friend had emailed me a cowboy picture of him. He looked nothing like the picture. I don't think I looked much like the picture she sent him of me either. But he was standing at the end of the platform (I actually had no clue what or where that was). As David predicted, he was the only person standing still. All of the others were in a hurry, or now that I'm in London shall I say "rush to be onward with their day".

We traveled by tube using the oyster card. (yeah, again no clue) which is a different subway system and the 'oyster' card is a preloaded transportation card for most of the subways and bus systems for London. You just hold the card up to the yellow 4" button and it deducts the fare from the card.

I arrived at David's town house apartment (built in late 1800) on the cobble stone street about 1 in the afternoon London time. I met his wife Jillian, a wonderful British woman and Poppy and Molly their wire hair dachshund hound dogs and Pud and Stormy the cats who tolerate the dogs. Tolerate being the key word here. Of course we had tea and biscuits (no lie)

Showered and napped. David made dinner which was seafood pasta and wonderful with delightful white wine and french bread. Not much exploring today, but as expected after the marathon to get ready, my nerves about the trip -- I'm BEAT!

Tomorrow is a bus tour of London on my own.....standby...hopefully the pic of me and Kate will turn out good!