Hey there, Monday!

If you celebrate Easter then that's what you would have been doing this weekend. What are your family Easter traditions? This isn't a super big thing in my family but we do enjoy and excuse of getting together with extended family and friends. This year it was just a small dinner with the boyf and I wanted to have my family's traditional cooked ham, but they don't really do that here. So instead I got a small gammon and tried my had at doing it from scratch. Verdit: success and not that hard or long to do. I topped the whole meal off with creme brûlée. Store bought. I'm not that fancy. 

I hope you all had a lovely Easter if you're into that sort of thing and here's to a wonderful week ahead. 

Science is too cool for school

This one's for Betty.

Well this would be cool. Seawater jet fuel

Some people are nice

I'm not crying, you're crying

Shut-up Butthead!

This reminds me of the Heritage Canada Minute, "it's actually an old idea." You know the one I mean.

I've always loved snails. Even had some as a pet. True story.

Orphans Gatherings

This past weekend was Easter and like many people travelling or living abroad, I'm away from my friends and family who were getting together and celebrating this holiday/long weekend.  Instead I was invited to a new friend's orphan's Easter lunch and a chance to head to the Thames to watch 'the boat race'. (*spoiler alert* Oxford won!)

An orphan's dinner is usually put on and attended by a group of expats who can't make it home for a particular holiday and are missing out on the traditions from back home. This particular dinner was not quite traditional to anyone's Easter dinner as we had a mishmash of barbecued meat, potato salad, avocado and spinach salad. But tasty nonetheless.

After lunch we headed down to central London to catch a brief glimpse of the Oxford and Cambridge University rowing teams and they raced in their 159th competition. I did literally see each boat for 2 seconds between people shoulders, as they glided through the water. Being so vertically challenged in large groups is such a bummer.

purse wine

Despite that and despite the cold, cold, COLD day, it was a great time. Some appeared to be having a better time than others, but no judgement here :)

Happening at the same time as the boat race is the Spitalfields City Farm Goat Race between a goat named Cambridge and another named Oxford. Maybe next year...

Fun travels!