You Cannoli Imagine...: London, You Did Me Proud

OMG I cannot believe how excited you guys are about this.. yayayayayay!!! So right now I'm writing from my little Italian desk (the only thing in the room that isn't covered with Dani's luggage) in the Hotel Athena in Siena, Italy. It's taken so long to be able to get online- note to Americans if you want to make a good international living INVENT FREE EUROPEAN WIFI! Like no free wifi in the airport.. complete rubbish! So I'll tell you all about London now...

Leaving JFK was sad and I went through security with my cell phone back in Brett's pocket (shock), but after that I had my head on straight. It was so funny seeing the entourage of family waiting and waving goodbye until we were through security and out of sight. Corey, Dani, Joey and I are lucky to have such amazing families. The flight was long and hot but there were TV's in the seats with movies that weren't even on DVD yet! We watched Life As We Know It (with Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel and that cute little red head nugget) and Social Network and Eat, Prey, Love (more boring on a plane but there's just something about that happy romantic Javier Bardem I just can't take my eyes away). We slept a little and watched a little and while we thought we were just getting a small snack, over rolls the plane cart with a flight attendant who looks like the british version of the red head from modern family and he says "Would you like the beef or the pasta?" We died- beef it was with mashed potatoes and a salad in which I only ate the mutz balls (obvs) and a roll and a cinnamon cake. A Very classy british meal.

It was still dark out when we "touched down in London town" and the captain described the weather as "a bit soggy". Well Captain, you hit the nail on the head. We must have just missed a shower because the ground was wet and the sky was grey but the air was cool and fresh and we were just happy to be off of that plane! Getting our luggage was AWFUL! Dani has two hundred-pound (but seriously they're seventy pounds each it even hurts to roll them) duffels and a rolley carry on so thank god for the trollies. We got on the bus 20 minutes through the outskirts of London which was lit-trah-ley a miniature town. All of the houses are small little cottages and the cars look like they could fit into Brett's old Matchbox case. When we got to the hotel and got our rooms we made a quick attempt to stop shvitzing and took a nap. Jet-lag is NO JOKE, I don't get how celebrities and business people do it. Every free second we get were napping. After our nap was a 3 hour sight seeing tour of London. We started at the hotel which was pretty close to the Natural History Museum and down a few blocks from Harrods (windows and building is pretty and ginormous with purple flags down the block but at night it's lit up like a christmas tree, so beautiful) all the way down passed Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, and Trafalga Square. I was familiar with these names because of the ever so cultured Valley Stream/Lynbrook area behind Buck named their streets after these famous Brit locations. It's pretty close to New York except there isn't rubbish everywhere and it's like one third as crowded and the people walking around are fairly young and not a bunch of freaks. The architecture was beautiful and every building is different neutral colors and carvings and wrought iron balconies. We took the classic "Red Phone Booth" picture and even asked a local where Abbey Road was. He said if we wanted we could take the train fourty minutes away and make the fourth left and a bunch of weird shit we just did not have time for... but enjoy the sights!