9/13-14 British Museum

9/13 Thursday

We will be driving up to Oxford and Blenheim Castle soon. Henley is a charming town with beautiful countryside. I'll be taking pictures today and posting them tomorrow. (Didn’t happen)

We made it to Oxford and saw some of the schools and went to Blenheim Castle, http://www.blenheimpalace.com/index.htm the 11^th Duke of Marlborough's residence. Quite a spectacular place. I'll send some pictures or post them to my blog when I get it figured out. I made the mistake of deleting them from the camera after downloading to a folder in John's computer.

There were several colleges in Oxford. Seemed like a nice town. Ray thought the college girls dressed a lot nicer than at home, the boys, too. We did not see the pants dragging on the ground fraying the edges and the pants below the split in the buttocks, the chains looping from to the knees from belt loops or young women’s tummy overlapping the belt lines.

We felt even more in tune with London time today. So, adjusting has been fairly easy after the first day.

9/14 Friday

John took us to a bus stop to catch the Oxford Tube into London, Victoria station, then we had to find a bus to somewhere else. We walked several blocks, some of them unnecessary, to find the British Museum. Before getting there we stopped at Munchkin’s and had a beer with some fish and chips and mushy peas. The mushy peas were good. J

We only had a couple of hours in the museum and were not able to see everything we really wanted to see because of having to get back to Henley before the rush traffic.

Later on, I'll download today's pictures from London and the British Museum. Most of our time was spent on buses and trying to find the proper bus line to get on to. We asked a lot of people, a lot of questions.

9/13 Thursday

We will be driving up to Oxford and Blenheim Castle soon. Henley is a charming town with beautiful countryside. I'll be taking pictures today and posting them tomorrow. (Didn’t happen)

We made it to Oxford and saw some of the schools and went to Blenheim Castle, http://www.blenheimpalace.com/index.htm the 11^th Duke of Marlborough's residence. Quite a spectacular place. I'll send some pictures or post them to my blog when I get it figured out. I made the mistake of deleting them from the camera after downloading to a folder in John's computer.

There were several colleges in Oxford. Seemed like a nice town. Ray thought the college girls dressed a lot nicer than at home, the boys, too. We did not see the pants dragging on the ground fraying the edges and the pants below the split in the buttocks, the chains looping from to the knees from belt loops or young women’s tummy overlapping the belt lines.

We felt even more in tune with London time today. So, adjusting has been fairly easy after the first day.

9/11- 12 Departure and Henley

Erik drove us to the BART station in Oakland. He helped us get the tickets, etc. We waited for about 10 minutes before getting on. Another couple got on with their bags and we chatted for a bit. They were on their way to Paris to spend 3 weeks in France.

At SFO, lines were long to check in. We stood, as it turned out, in the wrong line to check into our flight. We could have gone to a much shorter line as we had checked-in online. Lesson #1. Our flight was actually not too bad. We had an empty seat in our row to use! Hurray! So, we had a bit of space to move about in. Virgin Atlantic gave us a nice soft chenille and brightly colored (their colors inside the plane---gold, red, and blue) blanket and a little packet with eyeshades and toothbrush and a tiny tube of toothpaste to make our trip more comfortable.

It took us about an hour and a half to get through passport check and security, so Ray’s friend John Hancock had quite a wait for us. He drove us to Henley, I think it was about a 45 minute drive. It was so weird sitting in the (our US) driver’s seat as a passenger, not driving and having cars coming at you on the opposite side of the road that you are used to.

We met Jen, John’s wife. We unloaded our bags and they took us a few miles through the gorgeous English countryside on a single lane to a charming old Pub (I didn’t get a picture, being kind of rummy). We had a nice meal and a few beers which made it harder to stay awake. We were able to stay up (with a few catnaps) until about 9:45pm, London time. I slept until 8:45 this morning, so feel pretty good. The bed the Hancock’s gave us was a wonderful bed. I slept late every morning that we were there.