The First Few Days

My first few days in London have been a whirlwind. Here's the Sparknotes version of everything so far...

*In typical McCormack family fashion, Big Jim (my father) almost made us late by deciding to start cutting the grass 5 minutes before we were supposed to leave for Logan.  Also in typical fashion, we ended up being incredibly early because Big Jim drove like a maniac, I lost track of the number of times we almost died.

*A couple minutes before boarding my flight, I got paged to the check-in desk. All I could think was "here we go, I must've fucked something up."  Nope, just got bumped up to business class. Couldn't get two steps on the plane before being handed two drinks. Man I love European flights.

*No ESPN=this could be a really long 3 months...

*Any thoughts I had of conserving my bank account are out the window. The dollar needs to step its shit up and stop getting killed in conversion rates. 

*Sainsbury and Tesco's are Stop and Shop and Shaw's, and Boot's is CVS.

*I was worried at first about getting blindsided by traffic coming in the opposite direction. Apparently the British were worried too, and put "Look Right" and "Look Left" in all the crosswalks.  Just now I panic when it doesn't say which way to look...

*Nutella and peanut butter are single-handedly gonna keep me alive over here

If this was just the first day and a half, I can't wait for the rest of the semester