Welcome to no sleep

It's 4 0'clock in the morning
Everybody is sleeping
Husband and I are wide awake
And my stomachs a growling...
Stupid jet lag
We are officially in London town!
So let's rewind a bit
On the 15th of March in the year of our lord 2012 Chelsea Catherine & Nathaniel Fields touched down at Heathrow airport at 3:30 in the afternoon, where they waited an hour in line to cross the border. We then rode the tube from Heathrow to Victoria.
A few lessons from my first tube experience: everyone is in a hurry. You need to watch where you are going or you might get sideswipe. There are so many different tubes/rail lines, it would be easy to get lost if you were not paying attention.

So we checked into our hotel at 6:30...yes that is 3 hrs from when we landed. After a much needed face wash and brushed teeth, we were out the door and back I the tube!

Nathan led us through the tube to the national gallery which is different from the national portrait gallery. In fact the national gallery had closed when we got there. After walking around the outside if the NG we decide we should eat it's about 7 by now. However when we turn the corner, I find the NPG. I don't think Nathan was excited to push off eating for art but we did. Thanks to working at OCMA, I got us free admission to the Lucian Freud exhibition, aka art of burned naked people as Nathan would put it. It was interesting to say the least. Anyways that place is deceivingly big and by the time we were done it was 9 and we still hadn't eaten.

For £17 we ate at the spaghetti house and split bruschetta, fried risotto ball, and chicken with interesting potatoes. We barely made it through dinner without falling asleep. It was delicious, but we were exhausted.

So a few observations from my first day:
1. Everyone speaks a different language. London us a multi-cultural melting pot. I heard German Italian some African language that I don't know and who knows what else.

2. People are always protesting something

3. Mind the gap gets old after the 100th time :)

Overall, I am excited and grateful to be here. Today we hit up the Tower of London and British Museum so stay tuned!