A Quiet Day In London

Day two began around 9 a.m. with the most annoying alarm I've probably ever heard, but I guess I'll have to get used to it. I love looking out our window, the view is amazing as we're on the 7th floor (actually the 8th, there is a ground level and then a 1st floor). The buildings here are all pieced together - one building has two totally different roofs and bricks. It's as if two families had decided they wanted to split the cost of building a house and did so literally, right down the middle. There's a flat below us that has an outside patio on the roof, I think we need to make friends with those people. This picture is of our building, but my room faces the other side.

I had french toast and bacon for breakfast, pretty good actually. After that we met a man from EUSA and he gave us a brief walking tour of Chelsea, highlighting good places to get groceries, shop, or just hang out. When we were finished we all walked up to the grocery store and I bought a few things, mostly just snack items as we all know I'm not much of a cook. I had to buy some moouse too because I swear airport security swiped mine.

We're all hesitant to travel outside of the borough because we really don't want to spend the money to buy a pass when we're getting our travel cards tomorrow at orientation. I came back and fell asleep, apparently that jet lag is worse than I thought. We searched around for a while to find a place to eat, a lot of places were either packed or closing, but we eventually found a tiny restaurant to get some chow.

After that we headed to Chelsea Porter, a local pub where Alex got his first drink in a bar (he's 20). We pretended it was his 21st and bought him a shot, it was nice getting to know the people in our group a bit better. Tomorrow looks to be a long day, let's hope the weather improves, it hasn't stopped raining since we got here. We go through orientation and then have a scavenger hunt downtown, the winners get free drinks on EUSA Thursday night. Alissa and I are going to go all out, Amazing Race style - so be prepared for some insight. I'm just excited to see the sights for the first time, Chelsea is beautiful and very safe, but I think we're all craving some London action. I think that's all for now, hope everyone is well. Thanks for the comments, it's always fun to see who has been reading!

P.S. We should have a lot more pictures tomorrow, so you'll get to see some when I update next.