Lisa Does London- Day 1 and 2

So I've arrived and I think I am just about adjusted to the time change. Although I find jet lag to be obnoxious when you are trying to get work done. Oh well.

My first day in London (yesterday) I felt was an absolute disaster. Well for me, at least. I mean I didn't lose a limb or anything but I felt like an idiot for about 82%of the day. Some highlights (or low lights depending on how you look at it):

- My blackberry didn't work when I landed. I. HAVE. TO. HAVE. MY. BLACKBERRY. I was running on the two hours of sleep that I managed on the plane and this was not the way I wanted to start. So I used a pay phone (didn't know they still had these) to call my loving husband and my parents to let them know I landed. I don't even want to know how much those calls cost. I just swiped a credit card and hoped for the best.

- I managed to get on the train from the airport and the hail a cab to my hotel. I also managed to tip my driver what I would later learn to be $20 because that is all I had. Glad I could make his day.

- Once I arrived to the hotel I was instructed by the bellman to go up to the lobby and check in. I walked over to the escalator on the right and could not for the life of me figure out what looked different about the thing, so I just stared at it for a minute (remember 2 hours of sleep and still slightly panicked about my blackberry). The bellmen all start laughing and tell me I'm on the wrong side. OOOh. People go up on the left and down on the right here. This concept will be a common theme throughout my trip as I was mauled by a gaggle of commuters this morning coming up from the underground on the right (their left) as I was trying to salmon my way down the underground on the right as well.

- There was no electricity in my room. No air, no lights, no tv, nothing. When the bellman brought me my luggage, I begged him to show me how to turn on the electricity. He looked at me like I was an idiot. " With your room key." Oh, of course. My room key turns on all the bloody electricity in my hotel room. So he really wasn't kidding...I have to slide my room key into this magic device near the door (that is not properly labeled, in my opinion) in order to be able to turn on anything.

- I wondered around Putney Bridge for a good 20 minutes looking for the London office. I was banking on being able to use my google maps app on my blackberry, which would have given me handy little walking directions. But no blackberry. So wandering and asking for directions I went. I have never been so happy to see my company's logo on a building in all my life.

- I got locked in the basement of the London office. There was a tiny port hole window where I could see the receptionist and I am just standing there knocking, waving, telling her the doors won't open. And she just keeps pointing to the right. WTF. I didn't know what she meant. Was her role at that desk so important she couldn't come over and let me out?? Alas a woman who knew what she was doing came down the stairs and showed me how to press the "magic" button that would let me out. They're big on these buttons here.

After a good night's sleep, today has been much better. Ok, ok, so I had a nosebleed this morning and had to sprint up the stairs to the Loo to find Kleenex. But other than that, really, a great day. I made it to the office with no problems and I am planning on doing some sightseeing tonight.

Here's hoping for another good day tomorrow. Cheers-