• One does not lick jetlag by springing wide-awake at 2:30AM.
• But, I fell back to sleep around 4. Yay me!
• There are funny hairs in the bidet. Not that we were going to use it, anyway.
• So we got on the bus and went to the Globe Theatre.
• Actually, it was a copy, built by an American, since the original Globe first burned down and then got rebuilt and then was shut down by the Puritans.
• The Puritans did not approve of Gwenyth Paltrow's acting, apparently.

  

• So then we went to the Tower of London and saw the Crown Jewels.
• And some armor with interesting codpieces.
• Then we went to the Tower Bridge, where we could go to the top and get a good view. But to get to the top, you had to watch a goddamned animatronic puppet show of an argument between the bridge's architects and Parliament.
• It was as bad as you could possibly imagine. I think Animatronic Abraham Lincoln would have kicked both their asses.
• The view up top was pretty nice, though.
• Today was sunny. I bring my weather with me. :-)

  

• Then we took a cruise of the Thames back to Westminster Abbey, which is not an Abbey but a Peculiar Church.
• Hey, that's not MY opinion. I think it's fine.
• Elton John probably made it peculiar enough.
• Bad dum bum *crash*
• Then we waited forever and ever and ever for our Big Bus to arrive, and then it took forever to get us back to the hotel, and we missed the first half of the tour orientation.
• Our tour group is almost all chicks. Guys, take note.
• I didn't talk to anyone except this Australian teacher named Mary.
• I think our tour guide is from Oz, too. I can distinguish between the Aussie and English accents DESPITE being American! (Britons enunciate, while Aussies royally mumble.)
• I bought my brother a plastic Bobby hat.
• Oh shut up. It's cute.

  

• We have to be up at Dark Thirty tomorrow.
• A slice of pizza, a salad, a piece of cake and a small Fanta cost me 9 pounds.
• ANIMATRONIC PUPPET ARCHITECTS FROM HELL!!!!!
• I have to go, because Jeri has to use our outlet to blowdry her hair and then curl up and die.
• She's tired. I'm wired.

The first day with the Contikis