On Friday evening we left the States and we arrived on Saturday morning at 6:30 in London. We were picked up by Charles a former JIS student who was kind enough to pick us up and to give us the keys from Will's apartment. Will is another ex JIS student, who was in the school soccer team for many years and who is the son of our good friend Kristan.
Day 1 was a very busy one . After we arrived we dropped our stuff off at the apartment and we had to meet Mark Gray's niece who's Arsenal membership cards we could use to get tickets for the Arsenal v Newcastle match. After we met with her we were on our way to Craven Cottage to watch match 1 Fulham v Swansea. This match kicked off at 3:00 and ended in a deserved win for the away side Swansea 2-1. When the rain was coming down hard we had to leave this match 15 minutes early to make our way to the Emirates for match 2 Arsenal v Newcastle which had a 5;30 kick off. Arsenal is across town from Fulham. We had to rush to get a bus and an underground train..... but we did okay and we only missed the first 5 mins of the game. The game itself was pretty amazing...a goal fest. After a 1-1 HT time score the game ended in a unbelievable score of 7-3 to Arsenal with a Walcott hattrick.
After the game we still had to drop off the Arsenal club cards before we could finally make it to the apartment. We were home by 10PM. Needles to say that we were totally knackered but also very satisfied after a great day 1.
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