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We made it to London, and we're dead tired. We didn't get any sleep at all before we left at 4:00am for the airport, hoping that we'd be so tired we'd be able to sleep a full night on the "overnight" plane that arrived in London 6:30am the next day. I secretly knew it was a plan based on sheer hubris, thus destined to fail, and fail miserably.

Sure enough, even though we hadn't slept the previous night, it was too difficult to properly fall asleep on the plane, and we're compounding the problem at this very moment by trying to make it through a full day in London before finally sleeping on our new clock's nighttime. I know there's a punchline here somewhere; I'm just too tired to find it.

I am proud that we managed to have four breakfasts in one day, though. One in Seattle, one in Vancouver, one on the plane 8 hours later (it was 9pm our time, but 4am London time, so I guess it made sense), and then another again upon arriving in London. I think I'm ready to move onto lunch in this super-long day.

So far in London, we've stumbled through Westminster Abbey, did a little bit of shopping at Harrod's, and saw Star Wars in Leicester Square. Yes, that's right. We flew halfway around the world to see Star Wars. We were tired, and weren't up for much else. (And no, I wasn't really convinced by Anakin's turn to the dark side, either. Satisfying movie, though.)

What's that? Why, yes, sleep does sound like a good idea now.