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Well, I managed to make it over to the UK okay. The plane ride was uneventful, although I was keeping an eye out for LH's bro before I boarded. He works for TSA out at Dulles and we were joking the other day about how it would be funny to pull someone out of the security line and "charge" them with something a la Punk'd style. Maybe he's waiting to pull me out of the customs line when I get back...hummm. Anyway, I arrived at my flat and spent awhile trying to figure out how to unlock the place as it had several keys but once inside I found it to be a great place. No air conditioning but thankfully the weather is near perfect right now.

I struck out next to see if I could get my wireless up and working. Of course I about had a melt down when I went to the Wi-Fi Starbucks across the street and it didn't work. I wasn't sure if it was the place or me so set out to find another one. I'm guessing you can tell how this story ends seeing I'm posting on my blog.

Otherwise I spent the afternoon shopping on Oxford Street. A lot of great stores but I didn't purchase anything...at least not yet. Didn't want to go and buy everything on the first day. All in all it wasn't much of an exciting day. But I did get one mystery solved that I had been wondering about for awhile. I know this sounds really stupid but I always wondered if you could have personalized plates here in the UK. It's every other car up in VA but whenever I saw anything on TV, the movies or whatever that was set over here I never saw one personalized plate. Apparently you can have one it will just cost you everything you have plus your first born. The guy that drove me in this morning said that on the low end it starts in the several thousand pounds but can go as high as 500,000 pounds. Yeah, I see why no one does it. Anyway, below are couple photos of what my place looks like. Hope to have a few more tomorrow. Toodles!