Just Touched Down in London Town

We are going to try and compose ourselves throughout this post but the excitement may just be too real. We dropped a few breadcrumbs over the past month that we were going on a surprise trip. Our aunt asked for our passports, got us to clear the time off at work and y’all – that’s ALL WE KNEW. We pestered her throughout the next few months to try and finagle any details we could but we came up short with any new info.

So let’s dive into the beginning of the trip, shall we? We all worked a half-day the Thursday we left and then rendezvoused at our Aunt Susan’s house in matching outfits and with our luggage in tow. We had a driver pick us up (how fancy!!) and drive us to Chicago O’Hare. At this point, we still had no clue where we were going so we just chatted away mindlessly until we arrived at the airport. Once we were out of the car our mom starting recording and Aunt Susan casually asked us to hold a book that was in her bag. “Top things to do in London” was the title and we were both beside ourselves!

With not much time to celebrate the knowledge, we headed inside to check in and make our way through security. While we waited we perused the book so we could start deciding on top attractions. As we were boarding we learned that we would be flying on the largest commercial flight, the aptly named Airbus. It was so big it had two floors. Half of us went down one tunnel to the upstairs and the other half through a different to head below. We flew British Airways and it was phenomenal. We got front row seats on the entire flight there, hello leg room! The flight attendants were darling and we cannot stress that enough, it was a pleasure chatting with them.

We all “got ready for bed”, took some Tylenol PM, and Dramamine for some of us and settled into sleep overnight. We arrived around 10:45 London time and took the Heathrow Express to Paddington Station so we could hop on a tube to our Airbnb. It’s always fun for us learning to navigate through other cities transit systems since in comparison Milwaukee is so much smaller. We checked in and they told us we had somewhere to be at 3 and that we needed to look nice.

Our makeup was being frantically applied, lots of chugging water, and fixing our hair. Coincidentally (or not), we both found ourselves in Asos jumpsuits. We made our way back to the tube (briskly) in an unknown direction. We started walking the wrong way due to a new navigation app. It caused a bit of a loop around before we found ourselves in front of the Greater London House. It was a big bustling building with huge dog statues out front. They kept asking if we knew where we were. We had no idea!

Once we got inside we both immediately noticed “ASOS” printed all over the place. Shock and confusion set in quickly. Why are we here? HOW are we here? What is going on???????? They still wouldn’t tell us anything except to sit and wait for Olivia. Olivia promptly greeted us and took us back to their showroom. We walked through racks of clothing until we arrived at two racks they had pulled for us to try on. Our Aunt and Mom had arranged all of this and they looked at our blog to pull some bits they thought we would like. At this point, we needed to be pinched because this was such an unreal experience.

We quickly started throwing hangers over our arms and trying on anything and everything, it. Was. the. Best. We can’t compare this type of excitement to anything! We are flabbergasted and feel so spoiled after experiencing this. There is no way we will ever forget our time at ASOS.

Once we left we could slow our roll a bit for the rest of the night to catch all of our breath. After finding our subway stop, we stopped by the grocery store and grabbed some essentials for our place: beer, wine, cheese, coffee, and fruit. Is our Wisconsin showing? We quickly made our way to the patio and enjoyed many glasses of wine and some snacks.

Once we relaxed enough, we changed our clothing and headed to dinner. It was a small plates restaurant that Olivia had recommended. We all chose a few plates and enjoyed the food, drinks, and company. It was a full first day, so we were all pretty exhausted. We headed back to our Airbnb and got some rest. Stay tuned for the next few days in our next blog post!