.......minus 1 day!!

Have to type fast!! Am being allowed access to the Crew Internet Lounge at the hotel at Heathrow and can't be on too long!!

Yes that's right, I survived the trauma that is getting in and then out of London unscathed, the journey actually went rather smoothly, the only hiccup being when the train from Kings Cross to Heathrow had to stop and we all had to get off because it was running so late they just took it out of service!! Once at the Terminals 1, 2 & 3 I got the worlds most expensive taxi (£9.80 for a journey that, had pedestrians been allowed, I'd have walked) to what turns out to be a fairly posh hotel! In keeping with it's London home, the hotel has just charged me nearly £30 for my tea, although it was a fitting last English meal of a roast beef sunday dinner (yes Mum, I ate my veg) with chocolate fudge cake to end :) Needless to say breakfast in the morning will be avoided and some form of french pastry 'avec' chocolate will be being sought in Terminal 3.

Encountered some very interesting people on the train, was at on a table with a Music professor from Oxford, a Music student from Kings College, Cambridge and a Music student from the Birmingham conservatoire. Needless to say they looked at me and my Cosmo with some disdain, and I resisted all urges to ask them to come and have their conversations somewhere near me the next time I couldn't sleep! Speaking of, that's something that is unlikely to happen tonight, the excitement has finally kicked in, and it's all become very real! I plan to spend tonight having a bath in the lovely deep bath in my room, then trying to sleep in the really rather comfortable double bed!! I also get to sleep in my new pajama bottoms tonight, which is pretty exciting too!! (For those of you who dont know the pajama bottom story, I had to buy them especially off the internet at a somewhat ridiculous cost as regular shops havent quite realised that tall people not only want their trousers to fit, but their sleepwear too! So no more jogging bottoms from now on!! Woop!!)

Right have held this computer up long enough, its amazing how helpful people are when they think you have money to spend haha!! :)