Again, I know it's Friday, but yesterday I was a bit too preoccupied to blog. And that was because I had a flight out of JFK airport to London, England, where I currently am right now. Yes, sitting on a couch in a cozy hotel room with boxes of chocolate biscuits and Walker's salt and vinegar crisps as they call them. Life is definitely looking up, even though I've been awake for almost forty hours straight, living off of pure adrenaline and perhaps a few too many sweets. But what's a few dark circles underneath my eyes if it means I get to indulge in one of the best places in the world?
This afternoon, we ate at a French restaurant, where I was painfully forced to order in French for everyone, because the waitresses spoke only broken British tongue. Now if you know anything about me, it's that I have very few language skills, especially when it comes to foreign ones. The only word I've even attempted to learn in more than one language is "cow" (for no apparent or useful reason...). But despite this fact, I managed to do so, pleasing and surprising myself quite a bit. Although I'm still pretty certain that I could never make it on my own in France without major help from Siri on my iPhone translating every thought.
I'll be in the country for nine days, and they're definitely nine that I am thrilled about, more excited over than most other things that have happened in my life lately, or ever for that matter. It'd been seven years since I'd last touched down at Heathrow Airport, and it was certainly overdue. And perhaps what I'm looking forward to the most are the littlest of things, like the cozy chats with the cab drivers over what to do in the area, or seeing what the new holiday advent calendars look like in Marks & Spencer (a popular chain store here that has a little bit of everything... sort of similar to Target but about a million times better). Those are the minuscule little memories that I like to make the most.
However, enough about me, off here in the country that my native land once had a revolution with. I also want to take a quick paragraph to say break a leg to all of you Coleman Theatre kids out there, as tonight is the opening night of the fall show, Meet Me in St. Louis. All of you, cast, stage, sound, & lighting crew, I know you'll be terrific! It's only about four o'clock there for you, so just know that while I may be asleep by the time you hit the stage, I'll be thinking about y'all ;)
So for now, I think I'm going to sign off, have one last Cadbury chocolate finger biscuit, and then go off to bed to stop this no-sleep-a-thon I've got going on. To fully experience "The Big Smoke" (London's nickname for the record...), I think I should at least catch a little shut eye, even if the childish, adventurous side of me would be just as happy going out experiencing thing after thing so I don't waste a second... Have a lovely weekend, all!
Infinite xoxo,
R
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