Our last day on the high speed rails, nothing really new about this one. Riding the Eurostar back the other direction. Got to have some more waffles in Belgium and a lot shorter line through security. Excited to get in to London and to some cooler weather and to get away from the smelly French people we sat next to. We got into London a little early and found the tourist info center to buy our oyster cards, 38 pounds for unlimited travel for a week, sign me up!! Then we had to figure out how the heck to get where we were staying, it didn’t take too long, thankfully. This meant we were a little too early at the place we were staying at. Luckily there were couches to hang out on, also the guy that was giving us the key was there early too! We then went up to our London home for the week. It was small, really small, but it was about the same size as our hotel rooms and it was ½ the price of the cheapest hotel and it was a washer/dryer. Weirdly though for us Americans, the washer/dryer was one unit and it was located in the kitchen. Though I wouldn’t really call it a dryer, didn’t dry stuff too well.
After we got settled in we took a quick trip to Fulham’s stadium. This was very helpful so that we could know where we were going to go on game day. The walk from the station along the Thames is really quite nice. There is a really nice park right next to the stadium as well. Such a cool place to have a stadium, different than most American stadiums. I spent the time not believing that I was actually there, it was so surreal. Even going into the stadium store I was for some reason really nervous, like I didn’t belong there, like I was an imposter. Either way I was exited to get my kit, 70% too! Again just so crazy and excited is an understatement for the game tomorrow.
Glad we got to walk out there, after doing that we just had to figure out dinner and it was easy enough as there are lots of places really close by where we stayed. The easy choice was some Indian food.
Went to bed thinking the night was over, but we were in for a surprise. At about 1:30am the fire alarm decided to go off. We assumed it was something in our room and started fanning the smoke alarm because there wasn’t a fire in our room. We then figured out it was a building wide alarm going off. So we rushed to put on clothes, grabbed our essentials and left in a hurry. We even added a French friend that joined us down the stairs trying to figure out what had happened. As we got down to the front desk the alarm had stopped and the front desk guy was panicking a little as he was dealing with drunks and other people asking what was going on. Turns out it was a false alarm, thankfully.
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