Loving London

Now, the first little story I have may not be the most interesting because the setting is the airport, but it has definitely been the most intimidating part of my trip so far.

I got to Heathrow Airport in London on Monday the 10th. My fellow London pre-sessioners and I didn't communicate a whole lot before leaving the states so we didn’t have the best plan to meet each other in the airport. I got to baggage claim (our meeting place) at about 11:30 and waited around for an hour, knowing they were flying in later. A policeman asked if I was doing alright because people usually didn't wait in baggage claim. I explained that this was our meeting place so that we could find each other more easily. He pointed out that they may have flown into a different terminal in the airport. :0 I couldn't believe we just assumed we'd be at the same baggage claim. I took a stab at which airline they were on, trying to remember from our few emails and I figured out which terminal they would have come in on (they were probably already through immigration by now). I hurried there so they didn't miss me and leave thinking I had already left, still not sure if this was even their terminal. After waiting there for a while and not knowing if I should just leave or not, I stumbled upon them on the other side of a pole I was standing by for the past 10 minutes. So.. we took off on the tube to South Kensington.

The first full day we had in London, included a walking tour of our area. We covered a lot of ground and saw a lot of things, many of which we will be going back to, to see more of. Therefore, I’ll save some of that for later when we go inside some of the places. Also, since it was a tour we were kind of time crunched to see all of the places so few of our pictures from the first day have us in it.

First we walked toward Exhibition Road, which houses many museums. The road got its name because from the Great Exhibition, which was started by Prince Albert to show many manufactured products from around the world. The profits from the exhibition were used to fund museums for sciences and the arts. They were built along that road to commemorate the Great Exhibition.

This is the Museum of Natural History in London. I think it's a really pretty Building.

We obviously saw loads more the first day, but I'll post again soon with that because I need to get ready to go see a “show” called 39 Steps. I hear it’s funny!