Flight to London

Hello all,
I have made it to London and found my hostel.  I was able to get a nice window seat for the flight, and I ended up sitting next to a woman who was basically my mom.  She looked like my mom, she had a profession similar to my mom, she loved to read, she had a son named Andrew who just graduated, was a math major, writes his letters from the bottom up, has similar handwriting to me, and apparently is basically me.  Weird.

Once I was in London, I met up with my neighbor that I grew up with in the airport.  He was on a layover on his way to Germany, so we got to meet up for a couple of hours and get some food.  Random how these things work out.

Also, just a note for any of you taking future travels to London:  Paddington Station is not as close to King's Cross as it looks.  I definitely had a nice little hike once I got into central London so that I could get to my hostel.  Though, the nice part of this is that I learned a bit how to walk like a Brit.  Apparently you can step out in front of cars and not get killed.  Weird...and to think that I was waiting for a break in the traffic...  Also, I assumed that you would walk on the left of the sidewalk just like you drive on the left.  It seems that might be partially true?  Dunno, people tend to walk on the left, but it's been more of a free-for-all.

I think I'm going to head out to explore some more before I hit the hay early.  I have to get up for an early train to France to meet Rob in Reims.

I'll try to get more interesting things in the next post, but I just wanted to let y'all know that I made it to the U.K.

Peace