Day One

I'm not going to number all the days that I'm here on my posts, but day one seemed significant.

Last night I went to sleep right after writing the last blog, but I woke up again @ 3am. I called Kelly and talked to her for a few minutes, then put on The Matrix and got about 25 minutes into it before falling back asleep till 7am when my alarm went off. Pretty good first night sleep. So far, I haven't really felt any effects of jet lag--thank you to everyone who's been praying...

I went downstairs for breakfast, and found that when you scramble eggs in England, they have that small crumbly texture to them. But I had some cereal and toast too and was off to church.

I went down to Calvary Chapel of Westminster. There were about 60 people there, Alwyn Wall was singing with the worship team and I knew most of the songs. The last one we sang was "Indescibable" which really captured how I was feeling this morning.

Then I went to meet Peter at Tottenham Court Station. Actually, at the entrance to the Virgin Megastore near the Tottenham Court Tube Station, right across the street from a theatre that is showing "We Will Rock You" a musical by Queen, with a giant Freddie Mercury statue above it. It only took me 45 minutes to walk from just south of Buckingham Palace to our meeting place, which gave me another 45 minutes to hang out. Nothing noteworthy, except I gave directions to two girls looking for Charring Cross Road, which was just south of us. I showed them my map.

Peter showed up and we had some hamburgers for lunch and then he took me up to "Little Venice" and Maida Vale to look around at the properties and look in the estate agents windows. The places look very nice from the outside, but a little pricey yet. I'm going to start emailing as many estate agents as I can find to live in that area. Hopefully I can get one to show me a bunch of places next Saturday.

Peter showed me how to get an Oyster card, which will save me a bunch of money on transportation. He also showed me where the studio is, so I can find it tomorrow mornnig. He also found a shop where I bought a couple of plug converters for my monitor and hard drive. They were half the price for the same thing as in a different, more "polished" electronics store.

Then I walked back to my hotel and decided that I'm going to take the tube in the morning, even though I could walk. I just want to be as fresh as I can be when I arrive.

Now I'm going to check some email and maybe take a short nap.

Dave

Here's photo of the front of the studio: