Moscow to London

Today we woke up at about 8:30 AM and went down for breakfast at 9:00 AM. Since we never found the arbat the night before, Dan said he would take us. Because he is Dan, he wanted to walk and it took forever. I was really tired. When we finally got there it was me, Ally, Katherine, Tricia, Diana and Dan. We all split up and I shopped around by myself. I bought a black fur hat. We were supposed to meet at noon at McDonald's but I waited there for half an hour and didn't see anybody. Finally, I went to look in McDonald's and I saw Ally, David and Tricia. The others had left and I don't know when David showed up. Anyway, I ate lunch there and then we all headed back to the dorm (via metro).

Once back, it was a mad rush to pack and be out by 2:00 PM. Once everything was finally loaded up on the bus, I realized that I didn't know where my plane ticket was. I had to open up my suitcase to find it.

Finally we were on our way. When we got to the airport, it was so weird to have to say goodbye to Dan. There were a bunch of Americans there from the deep South on line. They were from the Olympics and were making a lot of noise. Our passport control woman took forever and it was really annoying.

Anyway, on the plane to London all I could think about was a shower. Tricia and I were so hyper and Ally wrote her "teapot" song. (See memory #146). Finally, after about three and a half hours, we got to London, where it is three hours earlier than Russia anyway!

We moved all of our stuff into our rooms and Ally, Katherine and I were supposed to have a triple, but our room only had two beds. Nobody wanted to stay with Melissa on our last night. So, Ally volunteered to sleep on the floor.

I took the longest shower in the whole world and it felt so good and clean and civilized! After everyone was settled, we decided to go out for dinner. We went to some really cute Italian place. After dinner, I wanted to go out again but everyone was really tired so Tricia, Dave and I all hung out in the hotel bar for a while. When they went to sleep I went upstairs and gossipped with Ally and Katherine one last time.

Finally, we all fell asleep.