We are on our way to Turkey and had a jolly good layover in London. We arrived after a red-eye flight, in which we were thankfully upgraded to Economy Plus (Yeah for leg room!). We did not get much sleep, however enough to last the 8-hour day ahead of us. After getting to Heathrow it was really easy to find the Express train (Tube) to Paddington Terminal in Westminster, London. Emily pulled out her “maniacal control freak” (as she puts it) booklet, which came in very handy at customs. We strained over the image of the ticket booth we were in search of only to end up asking an officer. He was very nice and told us we probably did not want to walk all the way to Trafalgar Square as our picture depicted, but we asked directions anyway and he pointed us down a street we had to ask twice the name of. We ended up finding a ticket booth within five blocks (about halfway to the one in our picture) and hopped on The Original Tour Bus 50 pounds later (about 80 USD agghhhh!). It was worth it though, because other than Buckingham Palace, which we forfeited in lieu of dinner, we were able to see most of the city in about three hours. For dinner, we went to a very authentic French restaurant…
Emily: At the restaurant, all the waiters were French. Upon being served French fries, we took the liberty of asking the waitress if they are actually French. She said they were British. The meal was fine, and at the end Emily told the waiter we had “eaten has much as we possibly could,” to which he replied, “that’s nice” in a snotty French voice. Treanna managed to leave a pristine impression of Americans by rudely leaving her fork on her plate (which intensely confused the bus boy, who must never have had to deal with such blasphemous etiquette). She also left a cucumber on the table, which had fallen into her bag from the previous flight.
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