Happy Birthday Patricia

This saturday I was fortunate enough to have been invited to celebrate my friend Patricia's birthday. For those who don't know, I met Trish through Megan (who was Trish's ex-flatmate) when I first arrived in London back in October 04. It actually wasen't Trish's birthday this weekend, she decided to have celebrations early because she wasen't going to be in London on the actual date. Lots of Trish's friends came down from Bermingham, which was really awesome of them. Quite a few of us partied all night in a club in central London until the wee hours of sunday morning. I think we all agreed it was a fantastic night.


If you do have the inclination move through the photos, you'll note my "new look". Once again I've lost my hair, which really isen't news at all now, but I'm now sporting glasses. I started to realise that my eye sight was getting worse and finally did something about it a couple of weeks ago, so it's official, I'm short sighted. I don't really have to wear the glasses except to watch tele and read street signs (I now need them to drive).

London Aquarium with Carly

Last weekend I finally caught up with Carly, we had originally planned to either see Hampton Court Palace or a play at Shakespear's Globe, but the typical London weather wasen't going to play along. Instead we did what all Londoner's do when the sky turns foul, museums/galleries/exhabitions. We met up at the London Aquarium, which I was told, has been featured in a number of films (must be chick flicks, because I don't really know which ones). Anyway, Carly and I spent better part of Saturday morning wondering around tanks of rare and exotic fish. Summary of the highlights:

• Fish from the Thames (believe it or not, there's life in them waters).
• Sharks and rays and huge deep sea fish in a tank with Easter Island head ornaments.
• Tropical fish, I think no matter how many times you see colourful fish it's still exciting.
• Fish from South America and Africa.

On a similar theme Carly told me about these giant catfish that was caught in the Mekong a few years ago. Incredibly rare, the villagers that caught it however did what you probably think they did...yes they ate it.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/photogalleries/giantcatfish/index.html