"It's Always Sunny in London??"

My apologies for the blog inactivity for the last week or so.  Sadly, the last week for us just entailed a lot of work and no travel at all.  It was a relatively uneventful week.  We did, however, receive our final shipment of goods that we sent by sea from Minneapolis, so it was so awesome to finally add some pictures and decor to our flat.  By Saturday, it was really feeling like a home.  We did laugh though because we had adapted to living very simplistically.  We were surviving with a few cups/glasses, bowls, plates, and just the absolute necessities with no excess at all.  When we started unpacking all of these boxes, we were looking at each other and saying what in the hell are we going to do with all of this stuff.  It was great though to have real wine glasses and my large snifters for cocktails!!!

We did have a spectacular day on Saturday.  We woke up to the sun shining brightly, and let me tell you, as the title of this posting questions, it is definitely not always sunny in London.  In fact, it is rarely sunny, so when the sun does shine, it is crucial that you take advantage of it.  Everything that we had heard about London weather is absolutely true.  It does rain quite a bit, but luckily, there are rarely downpours.  Also, it can change very quickly, further proof that we live on just a really big island in the Atlantic Ocean.  Considering, however, that in January and February we would normally be shovelling our way through snow drifts and trying to avoid frostbite, I will take 40 degrees and drizzle any day!!!  Anyway, we started our Saturday with a fantastic walk through Hyde Park and around this man-made river basin called the Serpentine.  It is really a great green area so close to our flat.  We ran some errands and then late afternoon, we set out on our own little pub crawl.  We came down to Covent Garden, a really fun outdoor market and area right where I work.  We had a few pints there and then moved our way to Soho.  Soho is a really eclectic area with fun shops and pubs, and is also the well known gay area of London.  We quickly discovered that specific area and I am pretty sure got quite lost on some of the winding streets.  We made our way out though and had a fun night.  We did end the night back at our local pub, the Elephant and Castle.  That place is brilliant.

This week has been great so far.  I went to my first yoga class last night.  Apple has arranged to bring a Yoga instructor in house one night a week for anyone that wants to participate.  As its reputation had preceded itself, Yoga was freaking hard.  I consider myself a somewhat flexible and in-shape person, but some of these stretches and poses were making me want to cry.  Also making me want to cry was the fact that I was the only guy in the 15 person class.  I could have used a little more testosterone in the room.  Oh well.  

Well, to wrap us this update, we have a busy schedule ahead and surely some good posting material.  Ann is headed to Paris tomorrow for work and returns on Friday evening.  We are here again this weekend, but then we are both travelling for work next week.  Ann is headed to Rome on Monday through Wednesday, and I am headed to Warsaw, Poland for Monday through Tuesday.  I hardly have any justification to say that I am jealous, but my parents are in Mexico this week and I had a text the other day saying that it was 90 and sunny.  There was a slight tinge of jealousy there.

Cheers

Kevin