Boarded charlotte - tiny plane 3 seats wide - very bumpy ride, landed at 920pm got food at place called Potbelly Sandwich Works and soda- charged our electronics and headed to the plane last minute sat in second to last row of a massive plane - 2 5 2 Boeing 777. Flight was good - got dinner(bleh 'chicken' with some weird sauce like marinara but not quite and taters) watched due date it was ok and the house episode and passed out - peter didn't get much sleep 3am wake up - I was up by 5 - landed at 6 eastern-10am local time.
Got off and found luggage - went to get an oystercard since we thought that is what we needed - turns out we just need a daypass - hopped on the
Piccadilly line to earls court then down to Fulham Broadway - our firstglimpse of the city was very fashionable - everyonewas dressed like they were going to dinner at a nice restaurant. Found the Chelsea stadium and went right to the ticket booth - £75 is all they had left and upper level(cheap seats are low inUK and where all the hooliganssit - we were saddened we couldn't sit with the crazies). We headed over to the Chelsea store and spent another 30£ on clothes/skullcaps/hoodie...then headed back to the tube. Bumped into a side street food stand and got whatever they had-I had a chicken swarma Peter had brisket. We people watched then caught the tube back to kings cross then hopped on the northern line
to high Barnett (what we thought was the closest line to our hotel) turns out the other branch - edgeware - was our stop. We called a cab and he charged us something like 20£ to get to the hotel after he made about 3 U-turns and got lost...Finally got to our Hotel - really closer to Scotland than London(not literally it’s just what I kept telling Peter). At this point it was around 3 or 330 so 11 am eastern - and we crashed- I set two alarms we slept right through.
Peter somehow woke up around 630 and we threw on all our gear and took off running for a cab, game started at 745. We got down there quickly but had to wait on cab, then train, then the tube is quick - we just had quite a few stops to go before we got down to theEmbankment
station and had to switch trains. Got off at Fulham Broadway again and the tube opens in the back of a sort of mini-mall. 3 stories tall with shops and food - grabbed a steak and ale pasty (thing steak/onion/gravy hot pocket but in a sort of crescent roll) peter ordered 'the same' but somehow got a curry chicken one - both were delicious but dangerously hot! We burnt our tongues trying to eat fast and then headed up.
It was about 820 at this point and halftime. We ran up to our seats of course they're occupied so we sit a row over where it is open. People come back and ask for their seats so we go ask for ours - the guys were nice enough to just all scoot down and we watched Chelsea try to score against Copenhagen for a good 45 minutes. Peter got in trouble for videoing the
game - pictures were ok though - score was 0-0 but still exciting - fans were pissed their new 50million £ player hadn't scored in 8 games. Every time the opposing team fans started a chant in German the guys on our left
would reword it into something funny/nonsensical! After the game we filtered out very quickly but then got jammed up in the street with nowhere to go. Cops on horses and a megaphone did their best to try and direct us - we walked around to try and miss the traffic of people and found a little random restaurant - kind of a do-it-all place like everywhere else. Peter had a burger as usual and I tried a chicken kabob with rice (pic). We kept getting funny looks from the table to our left and then realised (brit spelling) that their group got split and when we left the other group took our table so they could chat. I thought maybe wearing Chelsea gear in an American accent was about to get us into a scruff. The people spoke in very thick accents almost like a Pikey but I couldn't tell if it was something else mixed w a brit accent.
We left there to get on the Fulham Broadway tube and peter's card quit working - it was probably close to 10 at this point. We
got on the train and switched at embankment then headed on our 30 min or so train ride home. We pretended to plan for Thursday (St. Patty's day) but gave up, charged our 90 pieces of electronics that we have...literally = I had 2 cameras and multiple batteries, we each had a video camera, we each had a laptop as well as phones and mp3 players) and then tried to sleep.
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