back from across the pond, pip pip

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oh, HAI! i have a blog! fancy that! perhaps i should write something on it from time to time, eh?

last week in england was pretty good. i've been on a few business trips in the past, but they've always been brief, and not in another country, so i was excited about a week abroad. i was sort of forgetting that it wouldn't be, you know, a TRIP! to EUROPE! where i got to run around sightseeing and taking pictures.... i actually had to work all week, just like normal. (huh! weird.) it just happened to be in another time zone with prettier accents and more pub food.

i did find myself with a free evening midweek, and i used it to wander down to the touristy section of london and snap a few nighttime pictures of the bits that light up at night. i sadly only had my on-its-way-to-dying little point and shoot, and not my Real Camera, so excuse the quality..

i didn't know they did this at night - they projected (changing!) images from current exhibits onto the front of the national gallery. apparently they have a picasso exhibit at the moment.

i was also fascinated with the changing colors of the London Eye and (what google just informed me is) the County Hall - and more specifically, how the changed colors independently of each other. pretty!!

the last night i was there, my lovely friend christina came in from paris to visit. coincidentally, another of our highschool friends just moved to manchester, england, to teach at the university there.. and happened to be in london that evening for a conference. the three of us had a very cosmopolitan dinner together - in london! - before meeting up with one more of my friends (an actual london local, unlike the rest of us) and having a few drinks before we all called it a night. it normally sucks that my friends are so dispersed across the country and the globe, but when we manage to spontaneouly rally a group of 4 of us for an evening in london... it seems a little less sucky :-)