We made it to London! I arrived to Gatwick Airport at 9 AM and it took me about an hour to get through customs. I then took the train and the subway to our hotel, which is called Courthouse Kempinski. I got to the hotel around noon and Victor wasn't here yet, so I did a little exploring on my own. First, I went across the street to this little restaurant called "LEON", which is supposed to be a "healthy" fast food restaurant. I had the hummus and the roasted sweet potato falafel, both of which were pretty good. After that I walked around to the different shops in the area. My favorite was LUSH, which is an all-natural store that sells facial, hair, and body products. I really liked the store alot; here is the website: http://usa.lush.com/cgi-bin/lushdb/index.html?lang=en_US&dlang=en . I now know what everyone is getting for Christmas. :) Anyway, Victor made it here around 2 pm. We hung out for a little while and then took a nap for a few hours since we were both jet-lagged.
One of Victor's co-workers had a get-together at her flat tonight, so we went. We had a pretty good time and everyone seems really nice! It was mostly black Americans there, so it was sort of nice to know that there are other African-Americans living/working in London. One of Victor's co-workers--whose name is Trina--reminded us of Cousin Jenny in both looks and demeanor. Victor jokingly told her that we were going to call her Jenny from now on and she just sort of looked at us, so needless to say we will be calling her by her given name. There was this other guy there named Randall and he reminded us of Joey. Anyway, now we are back in our hotel and tomorrow morning we will be moving to our temporary housing in Chelsea.
One of Victor's co-workers had a get-together at her flat tonight, so we went. We had a pretty good time and everyone seems really nice! It was mostly black Americans there, so it was sort of nice to know that there are other African-Americans living/working in London. One of Victor's co-workers--whose name is Trina--reminded us of Cousin Jenny in both looks and demeanor. Victor jokingly told her that we were going to call her Jenny from now on and she just sort of looked at us, so needless to say we will be calling her by her given name. There was this other guy there named Randall and he reminded us of Joey. Anyway, now we are back in our hotel and tomorrow morning we will be moving to our temporary housing in Chelsea.
4 comments:
Lydia:
Your mom sent me an email message today with the link to your blog.
It is so nice of you to let us know how you and Victor are doing.
It sounds like you are settling in
to your new job assignments and your new home. I need to send Michael II your email and blog information. Last summer, I believe he spent 6 to 8 weeks in London. Thank you for this communication and we are praying for you. Gloria and Grandma are doing fine.
Love,
Uncle Mike
I heard about Lush shampoo bars on Nappturality. Now you'll get a chance to try them and let me know how they are.
I remember when I moved to Memphis it seemed like there were lookalikes of everyone I knew, and I kept doing double-takes. I bet it will be like that in London. You can rebuild your whole family over there--someone you call Jenny, Joey, Deb, Daddy, Camille, Abby, and Mark. Just kidding of course, everyone!
Camille, I saw the shampoo bars in there and I almost got one but I figured I'd better wait until we got everything else squared away. They have a lot of really neat products in there and the prices aren't that bad. We will have to go there when you come visit. :)
HI Uncle Mike,
Thanks for the update! Maybe you can print out my entries and give them to Grandma to read since I'm sure she would like to know what I have been up to!
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