Day 2-Recovering from Jet Lag

16 June 2007
It is now the end of Day 2 of my London Experience. I just heard a loud "Woah" in a heavy British Accent, I am listening and trying to hold back my giggles because I just realized it is the garbage collectors who are down stairs working on that mountain of garbage left by the previous residents. It's pretty funny to hear to say the least.

Today I did a little more exploring of the area around my flat. First I went to the British Museum and took some random pictures of the curiosities. I posted them in a blog below this one. I noticed that people really have a fascination with death. Of all the fantastic exhibits in the museum the largest gatherings were always around mummies or skeletons or tombs. I am not sure whether it's comical or creepy really. I am not to be excluded from that lot, as you can see from the pictures I took many of mummies, canopic jars and mummified animals. I opted not to take pictures of the skeletons because I thought it might be in poor taste :-)

After the museum, I stopped into a little shoppe and purchased some post cards and then made my way to Oxford Street...shopping capital of London. I only walked through a short stretch of Oxford street stopping by stores that mainly sold musical instruments and books. Further down the street and closer to my flat there is an area called Trottingham Court which has a grocer, a couple of fast food outlets and several electronics retailers.

Still feeling a little out of place I opted to eat at another American restaurant tonight (Yesterday it was Burger King), Pizza Hut. Surprisingly enough, I thought that Pizza Hut was somewhat of a bargain. They have meals on their menu, a meal for one being $12.00us, which included potato wedges with dipping sauces (sour cream and chives and bbq), a small amount of random lettuce (salad?), an 8" pepperoni & pineapple pizza (which quite frankly does not taste anything like the US version) and a dessert of Strawberry Ice Cream cake. The cake was pretty interesting. It reminded me of those Good Humor Strawberry Shortcake Bars and it had raspberry sauce on top. In addition I had two bottles of "still" water (this is how they describe non-sparkling water or what we consider regular bottled water) which had a funny little message from the Scottish Castle that it is bottled at on the back. I wish that I had kept it because all this stuff is still so cool and foreign to me. However I am sure that this will probably wear off soon and I really don't have the space for all the excess stuff anyways.

So, for now I guess I will end this post. I am really having issues with adjusting to the time difference. It is now 1:51am but to my body it is only 8:51pm. With luck things will begin adjusting soon.

Hope all is well and to hear from you guys soon!

Have a great day!

~Jenn