Please mind the Gap

Well, we went from our lovely first class train ride down from Scotland into the crazy London Tube. Might be the same as NY City's subway, but with our giant packs on it felt much crazier and I couldn't help but giggle at the continuous announcement to "please mind the gap". Referring to the space between the tube & playform. We only had to take 2 trains to get within a few 100 meters of our hotel though. We are staying at a hotel on the grounds of the Chelsea Football Club. Feels a little too stark & modern in comparison to our recent stays, but we have so much to see here, we don't even care & I'm excited to be staying in one place for 2 nights in a row which means no big backpack till Thursday! Woohoo! Dustin & I both will pack differently from here out I think after seeing how little we can operate on & still be clean & look presentable.  Well HOLY MOLY! What a full day in London we had! It was beautiful weather.  It is now Thursday' think I started this on Tuesday... London kept us very busy. Tuesday night I fought to stay in good spirits as We had to wait in the queue for a donkeys age to even get checked in by the rude little snip at the reception desk. Then when we got to our room, they had put us into a room w/ 2 twin beds! Grrrrr... They never did make that right, but we managed as the beds were on rollers & the room was stuffy enough I think we made use of our distance to stay as cool as possible. We freshened up & hopped back onto the tube having no clue as to where to go since we were too pissed at our hotel to ask for ideas. We ended up heading towards London Bridge & after gawking at the beauty of everything in sight (London Bridge is probably the least beautiful bridge we saw (haha) but towers bridge was gorgeous! Anyways, we walked up & down a few alley ways, which is where all the charming places with funky smells seem to be located & finally found an Italian place that looked good to us. It was under the street & once we climbed down the stairs we were in a super tiny dining room that I will politely call "cramped". We were there though so we took our tiny wobbly table as I longed for Scotland. The menu was suspicious & the wait staff was short. We decided to split a chicken dish, a side salad & a stuffed mushroom appetizer & the waiter seemed annoyed by this & insisted we order a side of vegetables as well, so we did. He laughed at our request to bring it out as it was ready & said, "no, it will be ready as you want it" so we said, "oh.. Well how about the salad & mushrooms first" he rolled his eyes & said, "ok!?! It's your choice I suppose!" and walked off! I was too tired to be amused but when the food started rolling in my annoyance disappeared. Dustin told the waiter after we ate the mushrooms how amazing they were & he laughed & said, "of course they are!" and walked off. We both got a laugh at his behavior by now. There was a sign that said it was .10 pence to use the toilet & anyone caught crawling under the door would be punished to the maximum extent of the law! (this explains the smell in the alleyways)  So after an amazing dinner we took the tube back to our hotel for a good nights rest.