Holy Moly.....

...I'm in London!


So yesterday evening my parents and I made the ridiculously long drive to Miami International Airport (I mean, its only 2 hours but it always feels like forever!) and now, 12 hours later I am sitting at a computer terminal at London's Heathrow. How weird is that!

So, my flight. I was actually nervous about this flight. Not so much the actual flying part of it, but if I was going to have enough leg room. I know, I know, crazy thing to be worried about (and believe me, I'm worried about a lot more things that just that) but even though my legs are not that long, they are still long and I get figgity really really easily. So, being the overly anxious person that I am, the night before the flight I selected my seat very carefully. Well it turns out that the seat I selected that I thought had more leg room than some of the other seats actually didn't have more leg room. But thats fine, I can deal with that as long as no one sits next to me (hey, I like my space!). Well for quite a while, it looked like there was not going to be anyone sitting next to me. In fact, the airplane looked really empty. However, in the last 10 minutes the flood gates opened and tons and tons of people got on the plane. A woman and her child sat next to me and I thought I was destined to sit still for the entire flight. But then, I turned around to look behind me and I see an entire row that is open (the row with four seats in the middle)! Well, what luck I have! So I wait until I hear the captain say that the doors are closed and then I pounce (I think this is a very appropriate word for how I actually looked and moved) into the row behind me before anyone else could move. So, it was nice- I had two seats all to myself (two young women ended up sitting in the far two seats, but that's cool) and was able to spread out and move around. Also, great thing about British Airways is their entertainment system. Now, I have flown internationally quite a bit and I have experienced lots of different entertainment systems, most of them leaving a lot to be desired. But this one was amazing! I wanted to watch every movie that was being shown and they had some really great television shows also. Needless to say, the 8 hours flew by.

So now, I am sitting in the Heathrow airport with 2 minutes left of my internet time. The next time I write I will be in Tanzania! Crazy!

PS- just for information, the exchange rate is really bad in London. $20 exchanges into 7£! Wow definitely didn't do that!

Namaste!