We have a couple days under our belt here in London. Lots of adjusting. Adjusting to the English and Irish accents not to mention the Slavic and Indian accents. Adjusting to the time difference (hits me at 2:00 a.m. Uk time). Adjusting to the food...peas and potatoes with almost everything. Roger had an omlette today for late lunch. It came with peas (?) and french fries (?). He has not been eating well. We finally stopped at a local market to purchase peanut butter and cracker for him and, um, wine for me. We are Olympic contenders with our nutrition consumption!! You and I already know I'm on various nutritionist's most wanted list as a nutrition felon. Additional adjusting: technology....I changed to an iPhone before we left and I borrowed an iPad from my family's business - two huge mistakes, or rather frustration accelerators. Adjusting to our hotel/room - as is the case with most London accommodations, the room is TINY. We have a queen size bed in a room the size of a kingside bed. Every day we do this dance when we get up, who is going on what side of the room. The bathroom and closet are down 4 stair..again we take turns going to this area. The other adjustment is the hotel is actually a converted old row house. Very quaint however NOT very quiet. When people walk down our hallway, our bed literally jumps with each stomp stomp stomp of their feet. We can hear every conversation. Its pretty humorous except in the morning when you are trying to sleep. I about came unglued this morning as the hotel staff started its morning routine at 8am outside our door. REALLY, 8 A.M.????? Roger in his ambiem fog misses most of the nonesense. Me, on the other hand, I may turn into an ax murderer from interrupted sleep and extreme annoyance. The trip has proven to be much more emotionally charged than I had ever anticipated. Any time you go on a trip with your favorite person anywhere, let alone to a foreign country you have some image conjured in your mind about the trip. Maybe its based on some prior trip, or maybe its based on a movie, who knows. Anyway, it probabably includes laughter, good food/drink, seeing sights and just a general carefree sense of being. We haven't really had much of any of that. We have spent quite a bit of time in the hotel room because Roger hasnt been up to extended trips out and about much. We do what we can and then head back to chill out. As you can imagine, its pretty daunting. Its especially hard when you think of what you used to be able to do compared with now. Roger has been consumed with that thought and emotionally crushed by it. Ive told him, we cannot live in the past, a world of "used to" serves us no purpose. We live in this world and looking back to another world will only suffocate us. We have had some emotionally charged conversations. And all too weird, I honestly never thought we would. I thought we'd get here and be charged with energy and would have tons and tons of fun. So, in the world we live today, it means we take each day as it comes and if that means we have to go back to the room to take a nap or lay down...then so be it. The photo above is of us on the "Eye" ferris wheel. We were able to see a majority of the city. Very cool. We took the photo a couple days ago. Roger's mom and sister got here yesterday. We went to the theatre with them last night. A major undertaking for Roger. It was a one man show called Misterman. It was very good in that it was one actor who kept you entertained but it was distrurbing in that it was some psychcotic character who had been abused and had multiple voices in his head which caused him to act out violently. Not exactly light humor for an evening at the theatre. We are supposed to go again tomorrow evening and its supposed to be a comedy.....cross your fingers.. Gotta stop for now. Its about 8 million degrees in the room and I'm melting. Roger is snug as a bug under te duvet. So, I dont want to dial the temperature down in the room or open a window. Instead, to cool down, I need to go downstairs and lay in the cold tub. Sounds silly but this is our world. At least when I'm home, I can turn a fan on in front of me to cool down. AUUUGGGHHHHHH, I just did a quick preview of the post. And the bloody posting (getting into the Brit way of communicating) shows up as one ginormous paragraph. I have NOT lost my senses. I have NOT lost proper use of the ENglish language. The blinking technology (Ipad) does not want to interface with the blinking blog site. AUUUGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, add your own punctuation, paragraph separation, hell, add your own embelishments as you see fit. I am NOT going to tackle technology this trip. Will focus on and nagging my husband. its 12:30 a.m. d he is, as usually slumped into a ball snoozing. Love and hugs to all. Have some potatoes and peas with all your meals. Go the British way!!!