We have stories.
Many, many stories, and it has only been a day here in London. Like for instance, my initial story of the birds. Wherever I have ventured today, I see lots of birds. Pigeons, mostly. But oh, the lovely little birdie I kept watching as I was guarding our bags at London Heathrow (while Brian was completing a currency exchange)....
Some might know where this is going.
As Brian went to exchange currency, I decided to sit down within the non-occupied seats to watch said "birdie."
Twenty seats, mind you.
Well, said "birdie" decided to greet me first.
As I sat down, I noticed something wet coming through my pants. Yep, sure enough, bird crap on my pants.
Making this worse, Brian came running letting me know he had the correct currency, and that our bus was ready to depart.
"But honey, I need to get the crap off my pants, " I desperately exclaimed.
After everyone was able to see my sweet Brian "wash off my bum" with a wet sock, we were on our way to the hotel.
So, this brings me to some highlights of the day (birds excluded):
- London is cold. Long sleeves, jacket, and coat y'all.
- London traffic is redunk. Just saying. Remember to look both ways, because traffic is more than likely coming in a direction you may not be use to.
- If you ride on the trains through London, you seem some, err, "interesting" sites.
- We went to this place called, "Tesco," which reminds me of a Wal-Mart, but wayyy better.
- London encourages healthy eating. Everything seems to have the nutritional label on it, McDonald's is super different, and you see people out and walking/biking a lot. BTW, the aforementioned Tesco has six--yes, six--aisle of fresh produce. Heaven. This is compared to our little area back home at Lowe's Food that has nothing compared to this.
- If you ask for crackers with your soup, and the server asks if you want a biscuit, don't say no. We aren't talking about country-style biscuits here, we are talking about true crackers. Just a name difference. Yes, I learned the hard way.
- Gas here is $8.30 approximately a gallon. For realsies. I feel bad about complaining all these years.
- People are super nice....so far.
Note my next bullet below and this photo will make sense.
- Dog "doo" is considered dog "dirt" here. Heehee.
- A cart or a buggy is considered a "trolley."
- In the U.S., if we were to be "going" somewhere, it is called "calling" in London.
- Brian has breakfast this morning here, and it included baked beans. Yep. That happened.
- Custom is to walk on the left-hand side, not the right-hand side of people. However, when you are on the escalator you make sure to ride on the right-hand side so commuters can pass you.
- An elevator is referred to as a "lift."
- You are lucky to find A/C in a place here. It is just because there are usually no extremes in temperatures. *Our hotel has no a/c. Poor Brian. Lucky me:)*
- I laugh when people say dirty words over here. I have heard several younger adults say things in passing, and it truly makes me giggle.
- Many youth use earphones to talk to people on the trains, not just holding their ears up to their phone. I have several reasons why I think this is done.
- London needs to get up to date on some Internet service. For realsies. HELLO, Olympics.
- At breakfast, a server at the restaurant we were at said that he had been here since 1998 and thinks they made a mistake with holding the Olympics here (due to traffic, weather, etc.).
Alas, more to come tomorrow! Five hours ahead right now, so needing to get some sleep.
Fact of the day (Non-Shamrocking): My first word was "bird." Go figure, you dirty little pigeon-bird you.
Slainte,
Kara
Westminster Cathedral
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