Nov 27 - Dec 1: London, England
A while ago I bought us tickets to see My Favorite Murder live in London. It was a spur of the moment idea, but felt like the perfect was to spend our first non-American Thanksgiving. We decided to turn it in to a mini-vacation.
We flew in on Wednesday evening and caught dinner at an excellent Italian place in Shoreditch (which you’ll have to give me the name of…) Thursday you had to work, so I did some errand running and generally wandered around the city. That night was the MFM show - it was amazing and we had VIP tickets so got to meet Karen and Georgia afterwards. You even made Karen laugh. All in all, a total dream come true.
Friday we had a delicious lunch of sliders near our hotel and then wandered in the direction of the Tate Modern. We saw a few galleries there before we started to make our way to dinner with Mike. Unfortunately, there had been an incident on the London bridge earlier and the city was in a bit of chaos. It took us about 2 hours to cross London, but we made it and had a delightful, if bizarre dinner. Most impressively, the waitress brought us each our own huge plate of bread. It was odd. And then we found a pub.
Because we’re huge nerds, we had also bought tickets to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child while we were there. It’s 2 full shows back to back so we spent the vast majority of our day in the theater. The show was really impressive and I’m very glad we saw it. In between the shows, we went to NOPI for dinner, which was delicious. The roasted eggplant was a particular standout. After the second show, we headed out to meet up with Laura, Mike, Jamie, and Kathy - but the time we got their the pub was closing soon so a friend of the group found a Lebanese restaurant that was open until 4am and we all went there. Laura, wisely, ordered us 3 bottles of wine as the bar was closing and we spent the rest of the night catching up and laughing. It was the best.
