Luke arrives! Hoorah!!!

We left Sue and Patrick this morning and head to the hostel that we’re staying in for 3 nights to dump our bags and then tube it to Heathrow to pick Luke up. We found that we were running slightly late, and as we were coming into the airport Chris looked up and saw an airplane from the airline Luke was flying with coming in, we looked at our watches and noticed that it was the time it was meant to land, so this spurred us on to get there even faster. We made it to Lukes gate and waited with great excitement for him to walk through the doors, and half an hour or more later, he did so, hurray! We gave him huge big hugs and we all talked at once trying to fill each other in on everything that has happened in the past 4 months or so.

We made it back to the hostel and as Luke was pretty hungry we made our first agenda item: consuming of food. Chris and I went up and ordered, leaving Luke to relax on a couch and when we got back Luke leaned over and whispered “that’s Will Anderson” and sure enough, over Lukes shoulder sat Australian comedian Will Anderson. We contemplated going up and saying hi, but he was sitting by himself and busy on his computer, so we left him alone, but I know that he noticed the three of us because as I began to choke and cough loudly in a very unlady like fashion on a piece of my burger, he looked over and watched me, we had eye contact, so I claim that he now knows of my existence, albeit, it wasn’t a very pretty first impression for him.

We dumped our bags in a teeny tiny room that’s supposed to sleep 4 people but I think was more designed for 4 midgets, and head out. We know how badly you want to sleep when you first arrive in the UK, the jet lag can be a real pain, but we also know that the best way to beat it is to stay up until it’s bed time and then head off to the land of nod, so we dragged Luke off into the city and took him past Buckingham Palace, through St James Park, over to Big Ben and Westminster, over to Piccadilly and Trafalgar Square and then off to Hyde Park. I was very proud of Luke, for someone who hadn’t slept in 40 hours he did very well at keeping up, and keeping awake.

Hyde Park is amazingly huge and pretty! It was a lovely day, clear blue sky and hot with just a slight breeze flowing over you, just right. We lay in the park for a while taking in the activities around us, roller blading, soccer, rowing on the lake, picnics, boot camps, it was busy but chilled out, it was really nice to take it all in. There was a little café on the lake in Hyde Park so head here for a bite to eat before heading back to the hostel where we all fell asleep not long after putting our heads to the pillow

written by  Chris and Emily on August 3, 2009 from London, United Kingdom
from the travel blog: Europe 2009
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