A Long Day's Journey...
It’s amazing how much you can sometimes achieve in a 24 hour period, especially if you don’t waste any of it sleeping.
11.30 p.m. local time. Land one hour late after delay caused by storms in Chicago area.
11.50 p.m. Clear airport and arrive at car rental office. One good thing about arriving so late in the day is how quiet everything is.
12 midnight. Told by staff to choose any unlocked car parked on rows 5 and 6 in car park.
12.30 a.m. Choose only one out of 50 cars which is actually unlocked.
1.30 a.m. Arrive at hotel after spending far too long on M25. (Orbital motorway that runs around London).
1.35 a.m. Have to cart luggage up two flights of stairs as lift not working and what the English call the first floor is actually two floors about street level.
2 a.m. – 5.45 a.m. Decide to forgo sleep for exercise. Nearly three hours tossing and turning on hardboard bed with concrete pillow.
5.50 a.m. Have bath with shampoo as no other toiletries in room. Not great, but at least my skin now has a healthy shine.
8 a.m. Meet orphans no 1 and 2 for breakfast downstairs. Pay astonishing $27 per head for them. Never realized how expensive England was. Cost most memorable thing about otherwise very ordinary buffet.
9.15 a.m. Attend synagogue for barmitzvah of some very old friends’ youngest son.
1 p.m. Lunch at their home. By now struggling to keep awake, but have a good time catching up, even though we only saw them three weeks ago.
2 p.m. Yawwn…must leave soon to visit my parentssss..zz. Oops, up we get, off again. At least if I fall asleep in my father’s care home no one will notice as most people there sleep much of the time anyway.
4 p.m. Drop Orphan No 2 at Game Boy’s house. Resist temptation to go in and run shower so it ruins their downstairs ceiling.
4.30 p.m. Decide to forgo nap for extra strong coffee.
7.15 p.m. Collected by our newlywed friends to attend another friends’ dinner party. Have wonderful evening, although surprised when eight of us are only offered enough food for 16. How quickly we have got used to army sized catering in the US.
11.30 p.m. Arrive back at hotel. Swap concrete pillows for one’s seemingly filled with wood shavings, but so tired don’t care any more.
11.30 p.m. local time. Land one hour late after delay caused by storms in Chicago area.
11.50 p.m. Clear airport and arrive at car rental office. One good thing about arriving so late in the day is how quiet everything is.
12 midnight. Told by staff to choose any unlocked car parked on rows 5 and 6 in car park.
12.30 a.m. Choose only one out of 50 cars which is actually unlocked.
1.30 a.m. Arrive at hotel after spending far too long on M25. (Orbital motorway that runs around London).
1.35 a.m. Have to cart luggage up two flights of stairs as lift not working and what the English call the first floor is actually two floors about street level.
2 a.m. – 5.45 a.m. Decide to forgo sleep for exercise. Nearly three hours tossing and turning on hardboard bed with concrete pillow.
5.50 a.m. Have bath with shampoo as no other toiletries in room. Not great, but at least my skin now has a healthy shine.
8 a.m. Meet orphans no 1 and 2 for breakfast downstairs. Pay astonishing $27 per head for them. Never realized how expensive England was. Cost most memorable thing about otherwise very ordinary buffet.
9.15 a.m. Attend synagogue for barmitzvah of some very old friends’ youngest son.
1 p.m. Lunch at their home. By now struggling to keep awake, but have a good time catching up, even though we only saw them three weeks ago.
2 p.m. Yawwn…must leave soon to visit my parentssss..zz. Oops, up we get, off again. At least if I fall asleep in my father’s care home no one will notice as most people there sleep much of the time anyway.
4 p.m. Drop Orphan No 2 at Game Boy’s house. Resist temptation to go in and run shower so it ruins their downstairs ceiling.
4.30 p.m. Decide to forgo nap for extra strong coffee.
7.15 p.m. Collected by our newlywed friends to attend another friends’ dinner party. Have wonderful evening, although surprised when eight of us are only offered enough food for 16. How quickly we have got used to army sized catering in the US.
11.30 p.m. Arrive back at hotel. Swap concrete pillows for one’s seemingly filled with wood shavings, but so tired don’t care any more.
posted by Hilary at
10:59 AM
1 Comments:
you so should've gone in and put the shower on!
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