To Sleep Perchance to Dream...

OK. We're safe and sound in London. We checked into the Holiday Inn Kensington Forum which has a free wireless Internet connection (I paid twice at Seattle's airport for Internet access.) from which I am posting this now.

We went out for Indian food at a small place about a block from the hotel. The food was fine but the service was pretty awful, which is unusual for an Indian restaurant. Usually I find the service at decent Indian restaurants to be impeccable. The waiter did peg us right away as Americans and asked where we were from, what the weather was like, what our New Year's Eve plans are, etc. The typical small talk (that wasn't my complaint with the service).

And, of course, the £19 lunch/dinner comes to about $38 in U.S. dollars. And that was with us being careful. Wonderful exchange rates!

I'll finish this now, as I'm on about 2 hours of sleep and trying to adjust to the drastic time change. It's nearly 6 p.m. here but not quite 10 a.m. in Spokane, meaning I just had Indian food at about 8 a.m. as far as my body is concerned. Perhaps good sleep isn't in the cards...

--Greg