We made it!

We arrived successfully in England! Nate waited for me quite patiently in the airport in London, but thankfully he didn\'t have to wait long. My flight had a 200mph tail wind that put us an hour ahead of schedule! It was pretty remarkable! I made it through the border agency with no hiccups, too! I was in the line for maybe two minutes because I didn\'t have a passport paper filled out. I think the people at the booth had been there a while and they were just trying to get through the morning. I feel for them. If I acted like I felt, they would\'ve had a hard time with me! I did get some sleep on the plane, but not a whole lot, but I don\'t think Nate had any! We got though the airport and got to the bus terminal and were on our way to Oxford. I decided to capture the moment with my camera, but it looks more like we just woke up from a nap, and not like we were happily together in England. Oh my what fun! The bus took us down the road (we were asked to wear a seat belt on the bus, heehee!) and I was just in a daze looking out the window. I felt like I was driving through the town of New Market, because New Market has pretty hillsides with livestock, but then it\'s town is in the middle of it all. Imagine that times 500! Imagine beautiful hillsides, with lines of hedges running through them. Sometimes, there are sheep on the field just chomping away at the lush, green grass(where I\'m not sure if that\'s typical for this time of year.). I was so grateful that Nate knew where we were going and what everybody was saying. I think I\'m going to struggle for a little bit with the accents! Anyways, Nate and I managed to get off the bus with all our stuff at the nearest depot and we worked together to get my luggage to our little comfy abode, a walk of less than half a mile. The tricky part was carrying the bike box in a way that didn\'t hit everybody and everything in front of it. Nate was a grand navigator, and we got through the maze with flying colors. I\'m looking forward to taking pictures of the buildings around here. The buildings look like stage settings from the 1500s or something, but with signs for normal everyday things, like McDonald\'s or something normal like that! So we got to our house, and we pretty much crashed for about six hours. If we can fall asleep tonight it\'ll be a miracle. I\'m still in zombie mode! We woke up about 3:30pm, and moved around a little. We unpacked a bit, then we walked around the town for a bit. Went to a grocery store, called Sainsbury\'s and bought pasta and sauce for our first meal in Oxford. We came back and unpacked some more, put my bike together and then I made dinner. We did a little more unpacking and then we met some of Nate\'s buddies from the OCCA program. Jon Morrison, Mike Morrison (no relation to the former), and John Sherwin. What a nice way to spend the evening, getting to know people. I hope I didn\'t scare them away! I am feeling sleepy, so I think I\'ll leave a picture of our room when it was messy, and then take some good ones tomorrow.



Now, keep in mind that we did clean it up! This is the "before we completely cleaned it up" look! Good night!

-Erin