Gee Whizz where'd the weekend go?

This weekend was so jam packed full of activities...it whizzed by faster than I could have imagined. I'll leave out the less exciting activities (gym and laundry...yay!) but here's the play-by-play from this weekend:

3pm - Met up with my nutty friends to buy crafty supplies to make masks. Why you ask? I'll tell ya in a few hours...

5pm - Regroup at friend's house for mask making with mojitos (this hour was sponsored by the letter M)

6.30pm - Don my newly created and amazingly coordinated geometric mask and then realise I only have 1.5 hours to go home and get ready before dinner reservations..aack!



8pm - Meet with the masked brigade for a super posh dinner at Just St. James (sans masks of course...we're not that weird). We had live jazz...champagne..and amazing food followed by cocktails in the basement bar.





10:45pm - Hop in a taxi to the masquerade bash and serenade the taxi driver with an oh so random array of song including 'Wade in the Water' (he loved it...really he did)





11:15pm - Find our Irish crew in line, don our masks, pose for ridiculous photos and enter the masquerade ball where we meet some veeery interesting characters (Jessica rabbit?)





Time fuzzy - Dance with bubbles and...vegetables? Yes...weird party...





Early AM Sunday - Wander off home (acting all odd of course) to get some sleep before busy day #2



8:30am - Wake up and wonder why I planned so many things in one weekend (shakes head...)

9.30am - Hop on the tube (love the tube) to South Kensington to attend an Alchemy of Voice workshop

10am to 5.30pm - Meditate and chant and have a fantastic time! I highly recommend people looking up The Alchemy of Voice by Stewart Pearce...amazing stuff.

6pm - Don't rest...just go to find friends among the crazy crowds at the Thames festival on the Southbank. Discover they're watching Korean break-dancing in the middle of the crowd...so settle for some tasty Korean food and Korean break-dancing audio (he he...)

7.15pm - Wander along the river and get distracted by all sorts of pretty stalls with crafts, and shirts, and CHURROS! That's right...I said churros...YUM! Stand in the longest queue in London for the tasty fried treat. Then wave hi to Albert Einstein in the sand.



8pm - Locate the dancing Greeks (my friends...not performers) and hit the dance-floor under the watchful London Eye for some jump-n-jive and swing dancing (err...some people did that dancing...I think I did the jump-n-flail but was good fun anyway and yes that giant pink blur is the stage)





9pm - Wander to the other side of the park for the Petebox guy and the dare-devil free-runners. Dude...cool! (picture is fuzzy...but imagine big blocks and guys doing flips and throwing themselves at walls)





9.30pm - Walk across the Jubilee bridges - give props to the Jamaican drummer man - consider staying in the cold for 30 more minutes to watch the firework display over the Thames, but then remember that a whole weekend has gone by in what felt like the space of a Friday evening...and I have to work tomorrow. Oi...time flies!