I'm in British...

We made it! But not easily. We arrived to the airport only to find out flights to Canada are still considered domestic, and consequently, we were in the wrong terminal. Turns out Jessica's dad had already parked the car by this point, so we had to wait a while for him to get back and reload the car.

We have a ton of stuff with us. Here's the list:

1 Suitcase for clothes each
1 Laptop each
1 Backpack each
300 Rough Cut dvds
150 Emmy bracelets
150 Sunday bracelets

The dvds and bracelets are divided between two suitcases weighing 70 lbs a piece. They should be really fun on the Tube.

So we got them all checked and had to pay the overweight fee of $75 per bag, but it's cheaper than mailing that much merch. We said goodbye to Jessica's family and headed to the gate. We had rehearsed a plan to get bumped up to first class, but the gate agent wasn't having it. I went up to him to tell him my fiance and I were flying to London to meet my parents. They've been working overseas on business and never met Jessica. She even had a fake engagement ring. The gate agent said he could bump me up if I had a credit card. Lame.

So we flew to Toronto Canada. Customs there was the biggest joke in the world. We had a middle-aged lady serve as our group guide for a group of 10. We walked down a hallway to the station. Then we just walked right on through, no questions, just a stamp and goodbye. They were so friendly.

The flight from Toronto to London was pretty empty, and we got to spread out. We could see the ice burgs from our window. GLOBAL WARMING is REAL!!! So I decided it would be fun for us to get ethnic meals, well mine was ethnic, and Jessica's was gluten free. Both were terrible. We ate pretzels and little else. My dinner was a curry sandwich with an expiration date of March 29, 2009, and Jessica's gluten free biscuit was a month out of date already. So we were very hungry and tired when we landed.

We had to wait for a while before Jessica's cousin, Alvin, came and picked us up. There was the amazingly loud American college student ripping on George Bush and our industrial greed sitting a few seats over in the airport. We couldn't help but laugh at him as he kept talking and kept talking. Alvin picked us up in his Acura Integra, a very small car, but somehow we managed to fit all of the bags and backpacks. We drove though the heart of the city at night and saw the Natural History Museum, Piccadilly Circus, the London Eye, London Bridge and lots of old buildings, very cool. We drove past Harods too.

Today we slept until 2:30, and we just returned from our first trip to the grocery store. All of the prices are the same, but just in pounds, very deceiving. We're about to head out to the mobile phone store to get phones and have meetings tomorrow already.

I hope everyone is doing well, and please stay in touch. I hope to hear from you soon.