London - The First Day

After getting checked into the hotel - we're staying at the Sidney Hotel, we headed back out ... We walked back towards Victoria Station because we wanted to pick up our Wicked tickets and see if we could swap the one we got for Katherine for this Saturday for Thursday ... We were not able to, but we went ahead and got her one for Thursday anyway - she'll be in the row right behind us - so that's good ... (She had visa problems and won't be able to get to London until Wednesday).


We bought Oyster cards - the wave of the future with transportation in London apparently - they are RFID cards to simplify the process - and after riding the toob to the London Eye - we were able to ride it with 2 for 1 because of the Oyster. Apparently the tickets to ride the toob run about 1 pound 50 (3 dollars) instead of double that if you buy individuals tickets. Did I mention the London is expensive?


We headed back to Victoria Station and had dinner at a British Pub ... no fish and chips in site - so I guess I'll have to look for those later ... Mario had "Beer and Burger" - the burger by itself would have been 7 pounds - but add a beer to it and it's 5 ... go figure ... i had the Bangers and Mash with green peas - the really big ones that have no taste - which meant that most of my dinner had no taste - but it was hot and thick and stuck to the ribs so I guess thats the main thing ... I decided it was not a good day for black beer - so I stuck to diet coke ... maybe another day ... Mario had Foster's - he said it was ok - but it wasn't black either ...

Jet lag is killing me, so I wound up taking a nap - he decided to go check out a local bar ... Guess that's all for now ... Tommorrow nite we see Wicked the first time - haven't decided what we'll do besides that ...

At some point, i'm sure Mario will add pix to this.