I didn’t fancy anything “fancy” for dinner tonight so convinced the girls to head over to TGIF for dinner instead of Gaucho’s as it still gave us the option for food plus some pretty awesome cocktails. To say it was busy tonight was a total understatement, it was spilling over with all these tourists! ha ha. We waited nearly an hour for a table! At least we had good music and good drinks to occupy!
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Laney and I went to see The Flying Karamazov Brothers (FKB) tonight at the Vaudeville Theatre. Once again I didn’t really know what I had booked us in for but I was quite pleased to find that we had a very enjoyable night. In short The FKB are a comedic juggling group. The show was witty and funny and included jokes which showed tailoring to the audience, namely English culture. The juggling required incredible co-ordination and the brothers also demonstrated considerable musical skills with the piano, trombone, tuba, alto sax, guitar and recorder all making an appearance – there was one particular set which had each other playing someone else’s instrument whilst keeping balls in the air! In fact, quite a few of the acts demonstrated the link between the rhythm of music and the rhythm of juggling. They even juggled dry ice and a cava (which eventually exploded.) Not every set was a hit, I mean there was this scene where the boys all donned ballet costumes and flitted around on stage. Not sure what this was about.There was also crowd interaction with audience members being invited to submit items for juggling, with the finale involving one lady getting up stage to have flaming items juggled past her.
Overall just the kind of light-hearted entertainment that we were looking for.
Jill has been so lovely to me over the last six years or so at work that I thought it would be nice to take hert our to a nice lunch before she leaves the team. I know she appreciates good food, not just the stuff you can get in our local pubs, so we headed over to Babylon Roof Gardens. Conveniently only bus ride away. It was nice to have the time away from the office and engage in chit chat that wasn’t work related!
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Food at Babylon Roof Gardens continues to quite stunning if I do say so. I had a divine Pea Soup which really suited the cooler temperature we were having today, followed by a gigantic portion of a Roasted Pork Cutlet on a bed of apple and sorrel risotto. So filling Craig’s and Jill’s Salmon and Liver respectively were gigantic too. And all very good. Topping out a trifecta our desserts looked and tasted fab. The green tea and strawberry swiss roll worked particularly well.
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It was a shame that it was absolutely tipping it down outside and there was a function downstairs so we couldn’t see the pink flamingoes close-up. I was, however, amazed at how busy the restaurant was. First of all it was the middle of the day! And second of all the weather really was terrible – I thought it would keep people away!
The fact that the single biggest news item regarding this third instalment in the Transformers films related to Megan Fox being replaced by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as the female lead made me a touch skeptical about the film. However, I enjoyed the first two movies for their total suspension of reality and and I have to say I enjoyed this one too for the same reason. Sure there were moments that grated like Shia LaBeouf, or his character at least, and the fact that McDreamy was cast as the bad guy (boo), and I nearly fell asleep in the middle of it (no comment on the quality of the action in the movie or anything – I was just a bit tired! and the movie was waaaaaay long) but overall I can’t help but adore the Transformers themselves (they are so cute) and of course the hot Josh Duhamel in his fatigues. Ah.
I could go into what the story-line is but I’m not sure there’s a point. Check your mind at the door and enter all those who just want to see loads of things blown up. For me it was just what the doctor ordered after a brain-draining last two months …
Dave Chan departs the UK shores tomorrow for the land down under so, in tradition, he had some leaving drinks. I think it was a bold move to have leaving drinks the night before a flight that would effectively last 24 hours … a very bold move indeed! Dave’s drinks were at Thirst – one of the Chinese Crew’s favourite venues for cocktails … specifically Pina Coladas. And I could see why – those pina coladas were very potent! Ironically I don’t have many photos of the main man Dave!
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Thirst actually ended up being a perfect venue to choose as we were right in the heart of Soho and right in the middle of Pride celebrations! It was a fantastic atmosphere out on the street and a more perfect evening you couldn’t ask for. Everyone was in a fantastic movie – everyone was dancing with everyone, everyone was snogging everyone and everyone was feeling up everyone (okay, that might have just been me under the influence of alcohol … 😉 )
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This guy was just nuts, but funny!
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Fabulous night people!