Hello, and welcome to the last two weeks, where Aleida and I have been having fun all around London. We did a lot of shopping, which wasn't exactly picture-worthy, so I didn't take too many pictures. The pictures that I did take (except for those in Brighton, which will follow), will now be presented to you in minimal order. Enjoy.
It's Aleida's face! And me, taking a photo! And Trafalgar Square!
Here's a lamp I thought was cool in Portobello Road Market.
This is the view over London from the top of Primrose Hill. We went to Primrose Hill, a supposedly fancy neighborhood, to look for famous people, and we saw none. The view wasn't as nice as people said, but it was still decent enough for a photo.
These girls were moving the puppets around in tune to some music. For money. They weren't nearly as entertaining as the
Skeleton Man, so we didn't give them any money and carried on.
It was a bit windy on the Millenium Bridge, making an impromptu comb-over for Aleida. St. Paul's is in the background.
Yay! Proof we were together!
This was the sight of the neightborhood of Notting Hill the morning that the famous Notting Hill Carnival was to start. But, if we hadn't known that, I just might have started searching for a weapon against the zombies.
Ah yes. Drinks all day. In what appears to be shaving cream. In an art gallery. Classy.
Some people were celebrating by builing impromptu Cuban-style shelters, complete with big cigars.
We're getting ready to paaaaaaaartay!
Popeye!
And a fox made out of garbage bags!
This is beyond awesome. Made out of what appears to be paper-mache. I think they like the carnival.
Grabing a bite at along the parade route.
They are currently doing a live-art thingy on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Sqaure where one person gets up every hour and does whatever they want. (Read more about it
here). And no, this man wasn't wearing a black loin cloth. He was nude. Tres nude.
Yep. Very nude. Note the thoughtful people that had parked their grandmother (in a wheelchair) in front of the nude man. She didn't seem to mind.
Aleida's very excited about Buckingham Palace. Jumping-excited, even.
These zombie-whore girls were part of a zombie day in Leicester Square, London. And yes, I censored the one girl's boobs. They were... ahem.... falling out.
The events even including a brain-spoon race. Although it wasn't incredibly fast.
And... continuing the zombie theme.... can anyone tell me what this building is? It has changed a bit since the movie... Now it's luxury flats.
It was known as the Winchester Pub in the movie Shaun of the Dead. It's actual name was the Duke of Albany, although it hasn't been a pub in a while. And yes, you can buy a flat there. See what it looked like in the movie
here.
Aleida is pointing at the river that she can see through the cracks in Tower Bridge. Don't worry, the cracks are meant to be there.
One of our many passtimes - eating pork buns from nearby Chinatown while sitting in Trafalgar Square seeing what excitement is on the fouth plinth.
We found an Albertosaurus! Go Canada!
Here's Aleida, very early in the morning, and very excited that we've stumbled upon a filming location for the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Here's what the website says:
The ‘Acme Factory’, on the border of Toontown, where Marvin Acme is killed by the falling safe, and Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd) finally gets his just desserts, can be seen in west London. Beneath the neon and palm tree dressing is the Dimco Building, Wood Lane, alongside the new Westfield Shopping Centre, London W12 (tube: White City, Central Line). The Grade II-listed building subsequently became the interior of the ‘British Museum’ in which Mr Hafez (Alun Armstrong) resurrects Imhotep in The Mummy Returns.
And here's a brief view inside. I think at one point someone was tied to that hook, but I don't remember the movie.... Aleida will have to clarify that for you.
This was during the first couple days - we were sitting in Covent Garden I believe.
Aleida holding up the big shoe from the theatre production of Priscilla, Queen of the Dessert.
And, what a nice guest - she even cooked me breakfast!
And it was very tasty. But now I have no maple syrup left... back to the Canada store I go...
I'll make sure to post the photos that I took while we were in Brighton as soon as I get around to it. Stay tuned!
Here is Molesey Lock. That's where the ducks were. It is a race, because you could sponsor a duck for about 2 quid and if yours won the race, you'd win 10,000 pounds. I don't think mine won, since no one has contacted me, but oh well. You can check out the website here.
And the doors are open!
And here they come! Keep in mind that it took them about 15 minutes to get to where they are in this photo, so it was not by any means a stressful, edge-of-your-seat kind of race.
Here are the leaders...
Aaaaand here are the rest. Thrown in for good measure were a couple green plastic frogs and 1 yellow duck. I didn't stay to watch the whole 1km race, because that could've easily taken another 2 hours. Instead I left to head to the deer park neaby, which turned out to be way more exciting...
