{"id":1153,"date":"2003-02-13T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-13T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/02\/cheerio.html"},"modified":"2003-02-13T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-13T12:04:00","slug":"cheerio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/02\/cheerio.html","title":{"rendered":"Cheerio"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m really not normally a tense flier. But given all the news lately, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to not be worried as I get ready to head to London for the weekend. Tanks are surrounding Heathrow and and two suspicious people have been arrested<\/a>, which I guess should be seen as a hopeful sign that the Brits are doing their jobs. I know that half of it is just the anxiety of trying to get work done before I leave and figure out how we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to get to the airport (I think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re forced to drive given our schedules) and then figure out where to park (Logan has the most expensive airport parking I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen yet). But I checked the plane out–it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a 777<\/a> and our seats aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t great seats (right across from the toilets), but they are convenient seats (right across from the toilets). And we got a section of two instead of one of those ghastly long rows of five. The inflight movies suck (yes, I checked out everything), but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hoping to sleep anyway, as we arrive at 6:25 tomorrow morning. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take a quick nap in my parents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 room (unless, by some miracle, the hotel will give us our own room at 7:30 a.m., which I doubt) and then off to sightseeing.<\/p>\n

I picked up Rick Steves’s London 2003<\/i><\/a>, which looks like it has some great walking tours of the city (walking around it my favorite way to get to know a place). The Rick Steves books are also great because they have highlights of all the museums, and given our very short time frame, it will be helpful. But I think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have enough time to get the flavor of the place. Since my parents arrived first, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve asked Peter to make reservations for us and the Tweedle Twins for afternoon tea tomorrow at the Orangery at Kensington Palace<\/a>. You probably didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know this about me, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a sucker for crustless cucumber sandwiches and real scones (not those hard as rock things you get from Starbucks<\/a>) with clotted cream. With a nice pot o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 tea? Brilliant! Saturday morning we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re off to Ipswich to see a friend I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen in almost six years! Emily was a close friend when I lived on the kibbutz<\/a>; she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an English woman who married a kibbutznik. Anyway, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re back in the U.K. and they have a new son, so I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait to see her after all these years. Saturday night is dinner and a show with my immediate family (necessary to distinguish as 99 percent of my extended family on my mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s side will be at this wedding, including all those British relatives I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never met) and then Sunday is the wedding. Happily, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an afternoon wedding, so Sunday is also good for sight seeing. Then, back Monday night. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our planned itinerary. A large anti-war protest is scheduled for Hyde Park on Saturday, but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll miss it with our excursion, and I have to say, given the terrorist threats, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not at all upset to be missing it.<\/p>\n

So, till my return, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll drink a pint to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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