Farewell to the Festival

August 25th--It was a short night due to getting home so late and having to get up early to catch our train. Yes, today was a travel day for us. We left Edinburgh at 10:30 on a direct train to London. We arrived in London a little before 3:00, caught a cab and were on our way to our new apartment. We immediately realized that we were in the "big city" with all the traffic and crowded streets. It took us a little while to get to our apartment because it is outside of the city center. Upon arrival, we were greeted by Darie who quickly showed us around the apartment. Our apartment has much more room than we needed with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. We were hoping to have some visitors while here, but they had to cancel their trip at the last minute. Anyway, after getting a little settled in, we headed out the door to find the grocery store recommended by Darie. We made a wrong turn which made our walk a little longer than anticipated, but we finally arrived. I was so overwhelmed with this experience. The store was called Asda (a company owned by Wal-mart). Used to it wouldn't have phased me to be in Wal-Mart, but the size, combined with the crowd was a little much for me. Yes, we are all going to have some adjusting to do when we get back to the States. Anyway, since we had walked so far and had a lot of options, we stocked up on the groceries. That was great except that we had to carry it all back to the apartment. Mike and I were thrilled to get back to the apartment before both our arms fell off. It was dinner time by this time, but we had picked up a rotisserie chicken so it was easy to put dinner together. After dinner, it was bath and bed since no one had gotten a lot of sleep the night before.