Travel Day 10th/11th Football Game

Day One
What a long day it was, I was up for around 30 hours with a few naps on the plane. I slept really good when we got back from the Football (SOCCER) Match. But Let me start from the Beginning.

March 10th
I arrived at the airport about 3 hours before the flight left, which was a good thing because I got a pretty good seat on the plane. Check in took a long time, for some reason British has actual people check you in instead of the magic machines that US carriers use. The seat was in a row of 4 with only two people in it. Had room to spread out which was nice. It was my first flight on a 747, now that I have flow on the 737-777 I have to say that the 777 is still my favorite. I am excited to try the 787 whenever it finally gets done. The seat back entertainment system was really good, it had a selection of movies you could choose from. Each person could pause whatever they were watching at anytime. And they also had the moving map. Dinner was a chicken pasta dish and breakfast was a cheese croissant. The seats on the plan reclined more than they do on the United flight I take to Japan.

March 11th
The flight flew over Canada south of Greenland and Iceland and then over Ireland to Heathrow. We had to circle two times because the skies were full. When went to Terminal 5 which is the newest one at Heathrow. My sister wasn't there which wasn't suprising, just kidding. I sat down at a coffee shop and got a little liquid energy. It was a quick drive back to her house. After unpacking it was time for the grand tour of her work.

I met a lot of people and remember none of them. I just remember the fact that they all had proper handshakes, after spending time in the land of the limp fish handshake it was a welcome change. When she introduced me to the maintenance staff I got to use my Peter, Paul and Mary joke. She first introduced me to Peter and Paul, and there was one more guy in another room. I said that must make you Mary. They thought it was pretty funny. For the record his name was NOT Mary.

After the tour we went to Tea at Great Fosters. It was a Hunting Lodge used by Henry VIII. Very nice. I had a green tea from china which was very good. And luckily no craziness with putting any Milk in my tea.

Now onto the Trains, in comparison to Japan they are terrible and confusing. You buy a ticket but you don't have to show it at all train stations. We were headed to the Fulham Blackburn football match. We went to the game with two of my sisters friends. We ate dinner at a Japanese British restaurant, very interesting interpretation of traditional Japanese dishes. I did enjoy my Gyoza and Ramen.

By the time we got to the stadium I was really tired, but the game started out good, a goal was scored in the 2nd minute. The crowd was into it, the game was over in two hours, so that was good. I am biased but there is no event in soccer to match the end of the forth quarter drive in college football. The other team scored two goals in the last 10 minutes and Fulham lost the game. My sister bought a jersey with my name on it, it is pretty cool.

The train ride back was a blur as I was in and out of sleep. Went to bed and woke up 7 hours later.

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