London Outings during the eye of the storm

In my infinite genius, and occasions of over ambitiousness, I've painted myself into quite the pretty corner. With 5 electives (2 being rather weekly work heavy) and 2 projects my days are quite busy... not to mention I have now signed up to go to Ghana right after the term ends for two weeks, meaning there's no wiggle room for finishing all my work any time after the term ends. Couple that with Vicky and Ed coming to play that last week of the term, even more motivation to wrap everything up before then.

Add to this my plan my life 9 months in advance personality... Eugene and I are going to start travelling on the weekends again soon too.

But to my point, this last Saturday, my last without my hubby, was quite a fun event out on the town.

Met up with several girls near London Bridge to attend this treasure hunt meets dinner mystery theatre called Accomplice. Ximena, Carolina, Darice and I grabbed some Raclette first... can't pass by Borough Market without it, and then we met up with Ania, Mandy, Kristin and Ines for the start of the "show". It's quite fun because the actors are really in character, and interact with us in quite a fun way. Kristin stole the hearts of the OCD cleaner and speech impediment Schwarmacist. We all got funny little nicknames ... Bag, Burlesque, Giggles, Scarf, Blonde, Blue, etc. and all in all a good time. The best part was after we solved the ending we got to watch the next group try to figure out the final puzzle (which we figured out in a jiffy) making us feel good about our problem solving abilities. Although sense of direction was not strong with us, getting distracted from one puzzle to another by some arrows on the ground which led us to the Rose Museum.

After a couple of drinks and chatting with the girls I made my way down to my next event... A real Chinese New Year's celebration. We (Tak, Mei, Miwa, Nick, Rheza, Jonas, Monica, Beng-fai, Yuki, Zeynep, Kelvin, Kim, Sachin R) met up at Ran (Korean BBQ in London... yea me!) and headed down to the private room where we had amazing Korean food (thanks for ordering Mei!) and good company. But the real fun began when we moved from Plum Wine and Beer to Cucumber Soju and then just Soju. That really loosened up the vocal chords as we sang a compilation of good oldies, newbies, japanese and korean songs. Good times!