got off early at 415--- which was a great welcome to the weekend!
just hung about until my roommates came home from work
then we all walked up to notting hill- and we went to some tex-mex/spanish resteraunt
my roommates were very happy to have their mexican craving fixed.
i had garlic/lime shrimp.... yum!
saturday was an amazing day!!!!
we got up really early and went down to the Royal Horse Gardens to see the celebration for the Queens Official birthday. i guess some King a long time ago had his birthday in the winter or something and wanted to celebrate it outside- so he made an official birthday. its one of the 1st 3 weekends in june.
so we got there WAY early (but got great seats) and we made friends with some girl from Alabama and 2 girls from Germany. we all shared a blanket and made room for each other to take pictures and shared fun london knowledge. i was really great.
after we saw Prince William and Harry, Prince Charles and Camilla and of course... the Queen we decided to walk up to Picadilly Circus- and we bought theatre tickets for the night.
then Jen and I went to Portobello Road (a saturday staple) and got ingredients for dinner.
we also stopped by Hummingbirds- which the girls said had the BEST cupcakes ever.
they were right. yummmmm i even had a nutella one for breakfast this morning !
(so mom and dad if you cant bring over cheesecake from Juniors, or Portillos chocolate cake for my birthday.... we can just get a bunch of these AMAZING cupcakes instead!!!!)
jen and i got 4 ears of sweet corn, a head of broccoli, 2 HUGE new potatos, a ton of fresh string beans, and jen got a portobello mushroom--- for under 4 pounds!!! total!
then we stopped by sainsburys and got spices to put on our chicken and chicken (haha i finished checking out and jen was just about to be rung up and we remembered that we hadnt gotten chicken yet! so she had to run around and get us chicken.... the whole point of going to the store was to get chicken and we almost forgot it!)
we came home and made the most AMAZING dinner ever.
we started off with applewood smoked cheddar then had sweet corn-- baked chicken marinated in spices, caramelized onions and garlic, hand mashed new potatos, string beans sauteed in butter.... and ciabatta break with butter and spices that was cooked in the broiler.
it was absolutely amazing.
hahaha and we didnt have any left overs..... i cannot believe we ate it all. (i took pictures) but we did. AND had a cupcake for dessert :)
then we got ready and went to the west end to see a show. we saw Into the Hoods. (www.intothehoods.com - go watch some of it)
it says its a musical-- but really it is like a performance. like a hip-hop ballet.
there is a story line- but no one ever speaks or sings.... the music is all recorded and is like kanye and mariah carey and such. there was video and all other sorts of media integrated.
it started off with some guy doing a stand-up act then went into all this crazy hip-hop stuff.
it was actually very cool.
speaking of hip hop.... if you watch americas next dance crew on MTV--- one of the teams - Xtreme Dance Force- is from Chicago--- and i know JC Renzentti- one of the dancers.
so go and vote for them online so they win !!! (www.dancecrew.mtv.com)
after the show we stopped by Scoop- an amazing gelato place- and had- of course- a mix of chocolate and hazlenut. yum.
today we just slept in then who knows what we are up to !!!
happy fathers day daddy !!!!!
i love you soooo much and miss you and cannot wait for you to come visit !!!! (and the rest of the fam too!)
hope you guys have a wonderful day !!!!!!
off to make kraft mac and cheese for lunch...... yum!!!
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