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How I Spent My (Late) Summer Vacation

A while ago, me and the missus had a two week vacation, and whilst we didn't go away we did do lots of stuff that we wouldn't got time to otherwise.

One of the highlights was seeing our friends John and Sally who were over from New York. We did the civilised thing of cooking, and the eating, and the drinking and the talking. And it was good. We also met up with them and the masses in Green Park to eat, drink, catch up, play rounders/cricket and generally have fun, which again was very good. Following a particularly good bowling streak I did learn three things however. First, its never a good idea to get the better half out. Second, certainly not good to be the one to get her out three times (about up there with accidentally smacking her in the face with an American Football). Finally, any semblance of manly pride will dissolve under the intense laughter of friends upon going out for a duck to the bowler who takes over from you, who just happens to be female. Perhaps not as amusing as watching friends drink the pub dry of cocktails, breaking their ice machine in the process, but certainly close.

At the Tate Britain we saw several exhibitions including Stubbs: A Celebration - marking the bicentenary of George Stubbs' death (Tate | TimeOut), Seeing Africa - a collection of artwork by European artists between 1880 and 1960 during the height of colonial rule (Tate | TimeOut), Karin Ruggaber's 'Art Now' "pebbly concrete and plaster, often with pieces of fabric embedded in them" - I'm not joking - (Tate | TimeOut) and finally a display of William Turnbull's sculptures including bronze, steel and acrylic (Tate | TimeOut).

From these I'd really recommend seeing both the Stubb's and Africa exhibits if you get chance. Also, stop by the cafe, they do a great crab wrap which goes rather well with Guinness.

On the subject of food, we had a nice dinner at About Thyme, prior to seeing Wicked The Musical which was very good (review will follow), and also went to Whipsnade Wild Animal Park where we saw lots of fluffy and cute things, and some fluffy but not so cute things.

Other than that, we went shopping a few times, slept in a lot, watched films (inc A Scanner Darkly) read books, played on the computers/playstation and generally relaxed.

Oh, and the other highlights were two birthdays and an anniversary which were pretty damn good. :)

25 Sep 2006 19:30 | (2) comments | Things

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I'm sure you forgot to mention something to do with spending lots of time on your back while playing football?
Glad fun was had, hope you spared a thought for us poor saps working while you were relaxing so much!
Oh, and happy birthdays and anniversary :)