I've just woken up for the first time in London. Yesterday was utter madness. Utter amazing, brilliant madness.

From my last post, we got back on the plane for a 10 hour flight over Canada and Greenland. We dropped into London and passed through immigration with no issues. We made our way like zombies down into the underground and got tickets into London central. The ride was about 50 minutes I think. Considering the lack of sleep on the plane we were both awake and buzzing when we exited the tube with our

bags, up the escalators and out onto the craziness of Holborn station at 12pm. This was my first real look at London and I don't think my brain was processing it properly. Lines of red double-decker buses, black taxi cabs, old buildings, strange people. Somehow we managed to find our way with our bags to the hostel a few streets over.

We dumped our things and went for a wander over to Russel Park where I saw my first squirrel. So cute! Then we meandered about, had a look at the outside of the British Museum and got back to the hostel to check in. Once we had settled in for a bit, we headed back out and found the Sir John Soane museum. Without a doubt, up to this point in my life, this has been the best museum I have ever seen. It's a 1700s house, perfectly restored, with architectural craziness going on all over the place and every nook and cranny is crammed with artifacts. There are Roman and Greek busts, chunks of ancient buildings, paintings and even a huge limestone sarcophagus. I highly recommend it.

From there we walked to Temple and somehow found ourselves on Fleet St for a mere 2 minutes, but there were Tudor buildings crammed in amongst all the newer ones. So breathtaking. Then we walked down into Temple district and through to the Thames. Right about this time it finally sunk in where I was. There was the river Thames with all its bridges and the London Eye and as we walked down, Big Ben. So much to see and process and by this stage my legs and brain were in revolt. We went right up to Big Ben as the sun was setting around 5pm and continued on and saw Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace. Right now as

I'm typing this my brain is telling me that was a very vivid dream I had last night. I need to get back out there and see it all.

On the agenda for today is going shopping, as we walked home through Soho and Chinatown and saw so much. Even the pizza we got for dinner last night at

Pizza Express was awesome. I think we got to sleep at 8pm last night and I'm feeling very refreshed and so happy

to be here right now.