Out and about.

The first day is always the hardest to get through. Most of times we've flown to Europe we've arrived early in the morning having gotten no sleep and dragged our asses to the hotel and hung out until our room was ready, anywhere from 1-4 hours. Then we take a 2 hour nap and are able to make it through the rest of the day without awful jet lag. This time, we slept better on the plane (especially me), we got her at around 1 and only had to wait 15 minutes for our room. 

We must have eaten something for lunch but I don't remember it. We then took a very short nap and then went out. It was pouring when we left the hotel but the rain had stopped by the time we'd walked a couple of blocks. Nobody seems particularly bothered by it anyway. The streets are very busy. Lots of kids, meaning 20-ish kids, not 6 year-olds. There seem to be an almost staggering number of large groups of high school and college kids milling about.

Our hotel is at Leicester Square, a theater hub and full of restaurants and movies and fast food, but walk a few blocks east or west and it gets very upscale, or posh, or whatever they call it here. Lots of high end stores, mostly familiar. Hoping to see some not chain places soon. But not where we are.

It was just shopping, but the architecture is cool and I just always like being somewhere different, even if I'm not doing anything in particular. 

In the evening, we had a light dinner and then went to see Sunny Afternoon, a biographical musical with songs by the Kinks. We had no idea, but a friend recommended it highly and there were tickets, so we went. It was really fun. A little long. Someone in the row behind us was singing along so raucously and loudly that they removed him from the theater. The guy next to me (Ronnie sat next to him at first but couldn't stand it) was rocking his chair hard enough to get me all shook up, and the SOB was recording the thing too, which is against the rules plus I had to keep seeing his cell phone lighting up. There are jerks everywhere.

Now we're back at the hotel Seems like we may be able to make the time shift without too much difficulty. I guess we'll see how well we sleep tonight.