1st two days!

Ok, so I cannot get internet on my laptop yet and a cannot figure out how to upload pictures from my camera (oh yeah, Mom, I bought a camera!); since I am using the Hostel's computer this is a European keyboard--the lay-out is a little different from ours'. :)
So the first plane ride was SO long--thirteen hours! Impossible to sleep (peers were playing slap jack for 2/3 of the time...)--LAME! But the plane was awesome because the flight attendants and the pilot had Brittish accents since we were flying Virgin Atlantic; it was pleasant to get a taste of Europe before we arrived. The accents make them sound so polite--even when they cuss! There are a group of Brittish teens sitting behind me in the Hostel common area as I type this--they make curse words sound so cute. :P
Anyway, the only part of England I got to see so far was the airport in Heathrow. Two distinctions I noticed about English folk are that they have large noses and the middle-aged men all have pot bellies. Maybe I was just looking for something to set them apart from us, I don't know. ;)
I rode the amtrack and the metro today... cool stuff. Rome, to me, is New York with some random ancient architecture. I saw the Collesium at night tonight--that was pretty. I will try to post pictures tomorrow. People are lining up behind me to use this computer, so I better go. Hopefully my laptop with get hooked up to a network tomorrow so I can write more.
I love you, Mom, thanks for helping me get here--it's pretty amazing so far from what little I've seen!