Friday, March 21, 2014

Plane Trip and arrival and UK 3/20-21

Man, that plane ride was crazy. It was roughly an 11 hour flight departing at 750 pm LAX and arrived in Heathrow, London at 110 pm. The time change is seven hours which makes arrival at 610 am California time.
The plane trip was very crammed, luckily I had an aisle seat.....but that did not help me fall asleep....actually I did not sleep that whole plane ride and have not slept in over 27? 28? hours. There are a couple of us who have not slept yet but we are hoping that it will decrease jet lag. We had little screens on the back of the chair in front of us which provided us with movies, games and music. I watched This Is The End, Frozen, and started to watch 12 Years a Slave but only got one hour through it. The flight gave us free drinks, a free meal, free dessert, and little socks, eye coverings, ear phones, a toothbrush, and various other items that were nice to have if you wanted to use them. In the morning we were served a muffin and tea to start our day off.
When we descended into Heathrow I tried to get a good view of the city but I couldn't really see any large landmarks besides the O2 arena.
We took a bus from the airport to a pub in Oxford.....called The White Horse where we waited for our families to pick us up.

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Here's a picture of Cassidy and I in front of the street sign in front of the White Horse.

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The Oliver's (My homestay family) picked me up around 615ish and showed me to my room........I really should say it's more of a closet. I can't walk around in it with my one and only suitcase lying on the ground. I am going to have to learn how to be clean and organized.
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I am not sure how well posting a panoramic photo will turn out....but here is my room. I am dead tired and will post another photo of my room if this one does not turn out!

4 comments:

  1. Ryan....good to know you arrived safe and sound. Is it raining? I will be following your adventure. Now, get some sleep!!! Aunt Mary Anne

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  2. It drizzle a little last night but it has not done anything else and it's clear right now but there are a lot of clouds in the sky right now.

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  3. Hi again...I saw the pictures on the last post, but couldn't open the others from your first post. Did you do something different? What is planned for today/tonight? Does school start Monday?

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  4. Yea I am not sure why those pictures didn't show up. Maybe it's because they were taken from my iPhone....i'll look into it. And yes school starts Monday. My next post is about what happened today!

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