Sunday, November 1, 2009
One year later
I also forgot to mention I have now been in London for exactly one year!!! I arrived October 30th 2008... !!!! How time flies!!!
Chester, Ascot, Gothenburg
Last weekend Anne and I went to Chester to visit Byron here...
Byron and I went to middle school and High school together in Vienna. Vienna was (and still is) a fantastic place to live and we had such great times...
Byron and Gemma (his girlfriend) were kind enough to have us visit their lovely place in chester and stay with them for the weekend. Fantastic food, lovely fun talks and some great catching up and getting to know one another. Anne and Gemma had never met and Byron and myself hadn't spent any considerable time with our friends partner. But we all got on marvelously (This is a word that loads of people seem to use here in the UK, I haven't used Marvelous for quite a while but its a fun word, start using it...it's MARVELOUS)
Chester is a lovely town... very pituresque and quaint... definitely a place I would consider going to again just to relax. Anne snapped a great pic of me with the old shakespearan type houses in the background :-)
And the highlight of the weekend had to be Anne riding Joe (a horse that Gemma owns)...
Anne loves riding and horses and animals and so does Gemma. Rich loves beer, and football and beer and so does Byron... so it was a match made in heaven... :-) A quick detour to Burger king while the girls were riding allowed Byron and myself get down to some good ole burgering ..
A fantastic weekend topped off by seeing Mr. Hagan (my middle school football coach who is Byron's dad), Mr Heedles (my math teacher in high school and coach of my varisity football team at AIS) and Mrs. Hagan (Byron's mom who was also a teacher at AIS)...
Once back in London the stress started again and I've been super busy the past few weeks with lots of social arrangements outside of work as well... Dinner on Tuesday with Jennifer (one of Anne's closest friends who lives in Ystad) and her Jocke, Dinner on Wednesday for a girl that was leaving... great restaurant that does 50% off if you book in advance.. it was called the Clerkenwell Dining Room . I would recommend it for some good food if you can get the 50% off... I had the Salmon with loads of other seafood ... it was YUMMY!!!
Thursday finally a day off and headed to the gym and then Friday lovely dinner out at Ping Pong with Gemma, Alex, Bernie, Joao, Anne and myself. Farrrrrrrr too many glasses of wine.. I'm not normally a wine drinker but it was fantastically fun...
Didn't have time to be hungover because by 11 on Saturday morning I was at Waterloo station to meet Emma and Kieran (from my days in Bratislava) as well as John K, Laura and Gemma C. We headed to Ascot, the horse races.. it was an absolutely beautiful race course and it was a great day out... fantastic spending some quality time with Emma and Kieran but unfortunately I didn't win anyting on the horses... oh well :-) next time eh...
Now its a nice relaxing Sunday and we have one week until we fly to Sweden.. to Gothenburg to go to a Wedding of some really good friends ... John B and Carolina C... will be great.. more to come!!!
Byron and I went to middle school and High school together in Vienna. Vienna was (and still is) a fantastic place to live and we had such great times...Byron and Gemma (his girlfriend) were kind enough to have us visit their lovely place in chester and stay with them for the weekend. Fantastic food, lovely fun talks and some great catching up and getting to know one another. Anne and Gemma had never met and Byron and myself hadn't spent any considerable time with our friends partner. But we all got on marvelously (This is a word that loads of people seem to use here in the UK, I haven't used Marvelous for quite a while but its a fun word, start using it...it's MARVELOUS)
Chester is a lovely town... very pituresque and quaint... definitely a place I would consider going to again just to relax. Anne snapped a great pic of me with the old shakespearan type houses in the background :-)
And the highlight of the weekend had to be Anne riding Joe (a horse that Gemma owns)...
Anne loves riding and horses and animals and so does Gemma. Rich loves beer, and football and beer and so does Byron... so it was a match made in heaven... :-) A quick detour to Burger king while the girls were riding allowed Byron and myself get down to some good ole burgering ..A fantastic weekend topped off by seeing Mr. Hagan (my middle school football coach who is Byron's dad), Mr Heedles (my math teacher in high school and coach of my varisity football team at AIS) and Mrs. Hagan (Byron's mom who was also a teacher at AIS)...
Once back in London the stress started again and I've been super busy the past few weeks with lots of social arrangements outside of work as well... Dinner on Tuesday with Jennifer (one of Anne's closest friends who lives in Ystad) and her Jocke, Dinner on Wednesday for a girl that was leaving... great restaurant that does 50% off if you book in advance.. it was called the Clerkenwell Dining Room . I would recommend it for some good food if you can get the 50% off... I had the Salmon with loads of other seafood ... it was YUMMY!!!
Thursday finally a day off and headed to the gym and then Friday lovely dinner out at Ping Pong with Gemma, Alex, Bernie, Joao, Anne and myself. Farrrrrrrr too many glasses of wine.. I'm not normally a wine drinker but it was fantastically fun...
Didn't have time to be hungover because by 11 on Saturday morning I was at Waterloo station to meet Emma and Kieran (from my days in Bratislava) as well as John K, Laura and Gemma C. We headed to Ascot, the horse races.. it was an absolutely beautiful race course and it was a great day out... fantastic spending some quality time with Emma and Kieran but unfortunately I didn't win anyting on the horses... oh well :-) next time eh...
Now its a nice relaxing Sunday and we have one week until we fly to Sweden.. to Gothenburg to go to a Wedding of some really good friends ... John B and Carolina C... will be great.. more to come!!!
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