Rocking the Weekends

If you've looked at our calendar, you'll notice a very distinct acceleration in our weekend plans. Since the beginning of April, we've only had one or two weekends without an event.

Continuing that tradition, we packed in quite a bit over this past weekend. On Thursday (yes, we start weekends early here, at least when Laura gets every other Friday off at her job), Laura came up to Chester where I've been working for the past month. Typically I am there from Tuesday morning and then come home on Thursdays, but this time Laura came up so we could have a mini-adventure in the medieval city of Chester.

The Eastgate Clock - one of the most photographed in the world - built to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (whatever that is) in 1897

We rented a rowboat and I took Laura around on the River Dee

Chester's famous black and white architecture

On Saturday, we took the train back to London, then immediately ran off to Regent's Park for a wonderful performance of Much Ado About Nothing. They have a series of "Shakespeare in the Park" held in an outdoor theatre in the park. The theatre was fantastic, the cast was brilliant and the whole production was very well done. Not to mention we had perfect weather (and since the show goes on rain or shine, that was a definite plus).

Sunday brought yet another excursion, this time to Greenwich. We went with some friends, took a ferry from Westminster Pier and had a nice little picnic in Greenwich Park. We also got to step foot on the Prime Meridian, longitude 0, where time begins. I guess if you invent the system for measuring time at sea, you get to define where it all starts. It's a nice perk.

Greenwich

The gang hanging out in Greenwich Park

Laura's foot on the Prime Meridian

After Greenwich, I came home and passed out at about 6:30 - weekend adventures can be very tiring.

We're definitely looking forward to our next few weekends: horserace in York, the Royal Ascot, then on to Barcelona, Bordeaux and Pamplona. Definitely need to schedule in some nap-filled weekends soon.