Long day of travel but safely in London!

Hello everyone!

After a very long day of travel (I've been up for about 30 hours if you don't count the 2ish hours of semi-sleep I got on the plane) we arrived in London this morning (It is now about 7PM). First we got out of minneapolis shortly before noon-but found out they had a bomb scare (evidently a bomb dog sniffed one of their pink suitcases they use to signal the end of unloading a plane or something) and shut it down right after we left. Then we were supposed to leave Detroit for Heathrow at 6PM, and we uneventfully loaded the plane, but then freezing drizzle was closing down all but one runway and they were only allowing planes to leave that were already boarded (thankfully we were) but we sat at the gate for about an hour and a half longer than we were supposed to until they got the ice melted off the runway and de-iced us, as well as waited in line for all of the other planes to go. So we arrived here a little after schedule but have had a great first day.

We arrived in Heathrow after an almost 8 hour flight (which had a pretty darn good dinner and breakfast service for northwest), all of us got our suitcases, and we boarded a coach (bus) for our hotel. We checked in, unpacked, got some lunch, and then met up to learn our way around the Tube system and go walk by St. Paul's Cathedral (very pretty) and go to a tour of the Globe Theater on the south bank of the Thames River. We had a cool tour and then did a workshop which actually was really fun (I was nervous, having virtually no acting experience) but a lot of it was games and stuff and it will prove really helpful when we see Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in a few days!

We are all pretty much bushed and going to go to bed shortly but I'm trying to make myself stay up a bit longer to put my sleep schedule on track quickly.

Stay warm!! This feels like a heat wave (even though it is snowing which makes all of the Brits freak out) but it is probably about 25-30 degrees so it feels really nice compared to what I left behind. Not quite as pleasent as the weather was in New Zealand and Australia-but I'll gladly take it :)