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It was soon Sunday the 10th of August, and Leonard and Sheldon were packing their cases with clothes for the trip.

Or more accurately, Leonard was packing, and Sheldon was moaning.

"This trip is going to be like one of your equations Leonard, I can tell." He grumbled, pulling his empty case into the living room so he could complain to Leonard rather than to himself in his room.

"And how is that, Sheldon? Is it going to be perfect?" He said with as much enthusiasm as he could muster, not looking up from trying to zip up his very full Superman case.

"No, full of problems and mistakes." He said miserably.

Leonard chose to ignore that response and sat on Superman's face, whilst tugging at the stubborn zip.

"You're never going to get that closed you know." Sheldon said, matter of factly, looking down at his friend with a superior eye.

"Oh shut up, you've not even started packing yet! How am I meant to fit 2 weeks worth of clothes and items in one suitcase?" He said, standing up and looking at the superhero's face with a mixture of frustration and anger.

"Is everything packed neatly or just thrown in willy-nilly?"

"Uh..." The physicist hesitated, he knew what was coming next.

"Oh let me re pack it or all I'm going to hear from you is moan moan moan." Sheldon said, despairing at the state of his roommate's suitcase.

"Mm, that would be irritating wouldn't it..." Leonard muttered under his breath as we went to start packing his hand luggage.

Raj was also packing. He was ultra excited about this trip, and had done loads of research on tourist activities to do and places to see in London. He had brochures and leaflets for "The Making of Harry Potter", "Madam Tussauds", "The London Eye", "Buckingham Palace" and a leaflet on some shopping places for Emily. According to the hotel website, there was a laundry room situated in the hotel, which meant he didn't have to take as many clothes, which also meant more room for cameras and leaflets!

Just as he finished zipping his case, there was a knock at the door. He opened it to find Emily stood on his doorstep with her case and hand luggage. She was staying at Raj's so they could get the taxi together the next morning.

"Hello beautiful." He grinned, pulling her into a kiss. "Come in."

Amy was staying with Penny over the corridor from their boyfriends. They'd all be sharing a taxi the next morning, so Penny thought it would be nice to have a sleepover with one of her bestie's before the trip. They were both on Penny's sofa, drinking wine and chatting about what they were looking forward to, when Penny brought up the sleeping arrangements.

"So, are you finally going to share a bed with the Sheldonator?" She said, winking.

"I don't know, knowing him he'd phone and reserve a room with two single beds in it." Amy said, raising her eyebrows. "It's the sort of thing he'd do."

"Well, do you want to share a bed with him?" She asked.

"Yes! It's not like anything would happen, but it would be nice to finally sleep with someone that isn't my younger sister."

Penny gave her a weird look.

"Oh, she used to sleepwalk. Usually ended up in my bed for some strange reason." Amy replied.

"Alrighty then. More wine?"

"Better not, don't want a headache on that 10 hour flight tomorrow." Amy said, "ugh, on a plane for 10 hours, and you have to get up at 2am."

"I know, I've set like, 15 alarms incase neither of us wake up." Penny said, "Raj would kill us of we were late."

"I know, he and Emily are really looking forward to this."

"Course Raj is, it's his first trip where he can sleep in a double bed with someone who's not Howard!"

The two girls laughed, and talked until around 9pm when they decided to try get some sleep before their big flight tomorrow.

Howard had gone round to his mothers whilst Bernadette did their packing. She knew how useless he was, and Howard wanted to check up on her and Stuart anyway.

Stuart opened the door, and grinned widely at his friend.

"Hey Howard, how ya doin'?" He said, moving aside so he could get in and slapping him on the back.

"I'm good thanks, just come to tell ma something and to see how you both are." He smiled.

"STUIE WHO IS IT?" Shouted Mrs Wolowitz from her bathroom.

"IT'S ME MA!" Howard hollered back.

"I still don't get why you two don't just talk normally." Stuart said, shaking his head.

"Let's call it tradition. Anyway, came to tell ma that the university's paying for us to all go to London, some bonding trip thing, so i won't be around for 2 weeks, but I'm not going into that bathroom so I'll leave you to tell her." Howard said grimacing at the bathroom door.

"STUART COME WASH MY HAIR!" Howard's mother shouted again.

"Yeah that's fine." Stuart said, "hope you have a great time!" He said, before calling "Coming Debbie!"

"See ya mate and again, thanks for this." Howard said as he opened the front door.

"No need to thank me, I love it!" He said. "Bye!"

"See you."