The Journey started Wednesday, May 23rd 2012 @ 11:15
I few out of SLC and began the flight with a tradition....
CRAN-APPLE.
Samson and I started the Cran-Apple Airplane tradition 5 years ago on our flight to Nashville for a national FBLA competition.. ever since then we have both had cran-apple on every plane trip. Good tradition :)
I flew 3 hours to Chicago, had commute to the international terminal, recheck through security, and then was in Chicago a total of 2.5 hours before I began the 8 hour flight to London Heathrow.
The food wasn't half bad!
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| This is the REAL stuff... "BY APPOINTMENT TO H M QUEEN ELIZABETH II" |
After I woke up I got SUPER nautious.. which is weird because I NEVER get carsick, motion sick, and haven't ever been sick yet on an airplane, but I think that after that long on a flight and sleeping my body was just done! That last hour I sat still with a barf bag in hand ready to puke at any minutes.. luckily I didn't! However the little boy in front of me was not so fortunate...
Brenda, another BYU intern, met me at the gate and she took me to our house! 
It is picturesque. Brenda has been in London 4 weeks already and met a girl (Kaitlyn) at the singles ward who lived here in Hampstead (Northern London) and was looking for a roommate... So here is where I will stay for 2 weeks!
Nina is the lady that owns the house... She is an Indian woman who rents out the bedrooms of her house to people. She is HILARIOUS. Every morning she sees me and says "Good morning Darling" and with her accent it makes my day! This place is built straight up... and we live at the top. I am going to take a video and post it because it just can't be done justice in pictures.
Every morning Nina has her prayer time and the whole house fills with the smoke from her incense burning... Which is quite the smell! I can capture sight and sound, but I wish I could post to you the SMELLS of London. I think that's what I noticed first... It smells different. Now I don't notice as much, but EVERYBODY smokes and EVERYBODY drinks and EVERYBODY sweats especially when it's humid and hot and EVERYBODY rides the Tube. yeah. haha I LOVE IT though. I love riding the Tube everywhere and observing everything around me. I truly am going to video my ride home from Kew all the way to my house and then post it so you can see the places I walk and the people I see and the place that I live. It rocks... not because it's extravagant, but because it's different.
I could live here with Nina for years.
The first day I arrived (8am London=1am SLC) I POOPED out on the bed. I slept for 6 hours. I woke up at 5pm and then I went with Brenda to institute. The Elders were at the front door when we got there and they got all happy and about 2 seconds after they saw us approaching their faces fell and they said "you're members aren't you?" and we laughed and said Yes.. then the Elder said "ya you looked to holy to be a Londoner" haha They were funny, but it's true. People here look very.... extreme.
Well sorry this was a lame post.. its 11:30 here and I'm tired. Lots has happened and all day I think "I need to write about this!" and "I can't wait to blog/fb/instagram this" but then by the end of the day I'm tired and don't remember what I was going to post about. Oh well. I will keep this updated though with adventures had throughout the week!
Loves--
