Traveling to London!

Michelle-
First day of our trip- Auckland to London
We left Auckland at 5.50pm on our long journey, it's been 28 years (or are you 29 Jared?) well that's how long ago since we were in England. I remembered the very long trip and sitting on a plane for more than 28 hours in a small seat is no fun! Emirates was great though and feed us constantly which was a bit much towards the end and had to stop eating everything!
Arrived in London at 12.00 mid day and found after a surprising short exit through customs (only took us about 15mins from baggage to exit!) we got on the famous London underground. Well we took to it like ducks to water and remembered all the times finding our way around. Heathrow to Belham and Christine ( my cousin who lives here) picked us up from the station.
After a shower, and a nap we were ready for action and went out to the local pub to watch the opening ceremony. Rob did his usual and met the locals and by the end of the night was everybody's mate. Lesley and I met a couple who really did not believe we knew anyone in the olympics let alone was our daughter. She also thought I was way...... too young to have a daughter that age! ha ha loved that one. Another old English guy and his girlfriend who told us was Somalian but been in England 14 years was very entertaining. We cheered on our NZ team when they went by and met some fellow kiwis from Whakatane!  I was suprised that the British did not stand up for 'God save the Queen' and told them so. We had a lot of fun !
Now we are off the explore London and pick up our tickets for Gem's first game tommorrow 8.30am London time! Will put some pics up soon. Bye for now hope this blog is not too long!

Lesley

Finally here ,  tired but excited .  London pubs are  so  much fun , met a  wonderful group of revellers  while watching the opening ceremony .  Today we are off to explore the city.