New Year London Style

First blog post of the new year. Crazy. Before I begin, let me say thanks for coming and reading about us and our lives in London over the last six months or so. Wish you all a happy and healthy 2008.

Our second year in a row celebrating New Years in a non-Seattle location. Last year was Hawaii on vacation - 80 degrees, mai tai's, sunshine. This year, London - 40 degrees, drizzle, champagne (lots of champagne).

The three of us (Rich, not Midnight) went to our friend Alison's for dinner, drinks, and fireworks. The plan was to have dinner then walk down to the river to see the fireworks from the London Eye, and then see where the night took us. The dinner part was executed flawlessly. It was a great group of people and we had the most amazing Southern Indian food (not the kind of stuff you find at your typical Curry house). Delicious. Also, plenty of champagne.


















Then half of us walked down to the Thames to find the fireworks. The Thames is very bendy so we hit the river and then walked toward The City - but ran out of time to really work our way all the way around. We made collective decision to stop on a bridge (the Prince Albert I believe) along with several hundred other people, and quite a few cars, and celebrated the incoming year. We had more champagne.

We then treked back to the flat with the help of a timely taxi for dessert, good conversation...and more champagne.

Once we decided to call it an evening we had intention to take the free public transport back to the house (sponsored by NatWest, free buses and tubes from 1145-430), but we saw a taxi and and went for it. Hey, it's a new year, we kicked it off in style.