London Day 1: Jet lag and all that jazz

It's 4am in the morning and I am wide-awake. It's the result of jet lag and unavoidable emergency coffee consumption. This normally caffeine-free girl had three Americanos yesterday in a bid not to keel over from lack of sleep. I think AK is impressed with my stamina. Frankly, I'm impressed with my stamina.

Day one in London was a blurry blast. It's been a bit of a learning curve remembering to photo document rather than just gape. Hey I even photo-documented one of my meals. It's not much but it's progress. Hopefully, today will bring more clarity, better Internet access, and the ability to download photos from the camera (must find connector, I thought I packed it damn it!).

London is beautiful but weird. It's kind of like home but not. It's got the same chain stores but they're all located in 200 year old buildings; similar people except they all speak with funny accents; the same but infinitely younger looking Queen on their currency; same movie posters different walls; familiar looking Lays potato chips bags sold under a different company name "Walker" with slightly different flavours; etc. Very disorienting.

In a nutshell (and before I forget), here's what we did on day 1:

• Got a Oyster Card. Very cool.
• Rode both the Underground and the National Railway system. Very very cool and awesomely efficient. Giggled every time the announcer lady said "Piccadilly line to Cockfoster" because how is that not funny.
• Ate convenience store pre-packaged sandwiches (weirdly they come in packages of three and are lovely); steak pie at a pub (hot water crust pastry is my new favourite thing); donair (spelling) kebab and chips; chips; chips; chips; and crisps. This is day one and I think I may have reached my fried potato limit. I didn't even know I had a fried potato limit. AK has eaten twice the amount of chips that I have...she's my new potato hero.
• Took in a jazz concert in Barnes featuring music and performance by Ross Lorraine (aka OldDog from ccMixter). It was a wonderful evening of great music and new-ish friends. As an aside, it is very odd meeting old online collaborators in person - it's like dejavu but not. BTW Ross is a lovely lovely human being and a kick ass jazz composer/pianist. 
• Visited the Harry Potter installation at Platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross. Got to go back and take a photo when the crowd is smaller.
• Had beer at a pub. OK, AK had beer; I stole a sip.... that still counts in my book. 
• Went to Sainsbury (the supermarket). Love supermarkets. 

Totally looking forward to today.

PS - I just found out that a new movie about Alan Turing is coming out with Cummberbatch in the title role - my cup runneth over.