Send Air Conditioning!

I just checked Weather.com to see the weather for London - they said it's 66 degrees and was a high of 70 today - 70 my ass, more like 170!

First off the trip over the pond was pretty good. Business Class is absolutely the way to fly. The seats are more comfy, you have your own video screen, a three course meal that was pretty good for airplane food, and a good bag. They give you a little travel kit with toothbrush and socks, chapstick and lotion, etc. It's a pretty nice case in and of itself.

Customs was a breeze, took about an hour in the cab to get to the hotel. At first my room wasn't ready so they lent me one to shower in since I had to go to work. It was the size of a telephone booth. I'm in my room now and it's the size of 2 telephone booths. I'm moving up in the world.

We had an interview cancel (well we had 2 cancel and one they couldn't fill so we're starting off with issues) so we went to a pub for lunch. I had sausage and chips, fish wasn't on the menu apparently. The pub seems traditional, but it also served Thai food. I thought that was a little weird. The chips were normal, no big deal. The sausage was really soft - softer than hot dogs and it didn't have that much flavor.

After lunch we started to walk around. There isn't much right where we are in Olymipia so we hoped on a doubledecker. Apparently doubledeckers aren't air conditioned. I melted! It was horrid! We didn't stay on long and jumped off at Kensington Gardens. I didn't have my camera with me which is a shame because it is a beautiful park. We didn't have enough time to try and find the Princess Di memorial. We drove by the park later and it is huge, it's a good thing we didn't try.

After work we took a Taxi to Piccadilly Circus. It's described as London's Time Square. On a Monday night at 10 the place was packed with people - people from all walks of life and countries. Oh! I forgot - I ran into some women in the lift (elevator) the one lives here but is staying in the hotel with her aunt who is visiting. They said I had a "lovely accent"! Isn't that funny? I figured we sound different, but never thought we'd have accents.

Tomorrow we're meeting for breakfast and heading to Hamleys - it's London's version of FAO Schwartz. After that I'm splitting from the guys and heading to Marks & Spencers - I think it's like Macys here, but they have plus size clothes. I'm hoping to hit Ecco or Clarks along the way - they had sign sales in their windows and I could use a new pair of walking sandals. It is very expensive here though, the exchange rate is $2 to 1 pound which makes everything twice as expensive as home. I'm hoping I can find a few little things without eating up all my money.

After work tomorrow afternoon (or this afternoon as it's 0:36 here) we're going back to the circus to check out China town and get some good Chinese food. Wednesday morning we fly to Berlin and do the whole thing over again. In Berlin I actually want to learn something - I'd like to see the Checkpoint Charlie museum. It's suppose to be warm there as well, but not as bad as Milan - it'll be in the 90s there! I may have to call up George and see if there's room at Lake Como.

For those of you missing Toots as much as I am . . . here's a little video Jim shot last week when I went out. Toots is apparently trying a little truck swimming.

*sigh*