The weekend of 28-29 July

Saturday we went to the O2 stadium as the Red Bull Air Race was on, we didn't want to pay £20 for a ticket but got to see quite a lot from outside the gates. It was very impressive. Saw a helicopter doing 'flips' in the air, i so thought it was going to crash.

We found a sushi place inside (surprisingly rare over here). The sushi comes wrapped in plastic and there aren't as many choices as at home... before going to sushi we got given a ticket for a a promotion and it ended up being 20% off sushi plus the guy gave us a voucher each for a cocktail (score!). After our scrumptious FREE cocktails we headed back on the tube into the city to Hyde Park to meet some of our flatmates at a 'kiwi' picnic thing. (note the pak'n save bags in the pic! ...someone's dedicated!) We had to find a grocery store first, which proved nearly impossible as we had stumbled across the posh part of town, Harrods, designer clothes etc. At the park we just laxed out in the sun, had a few drinks and nibbles while people around us were playing cricket, touch rugby and frisbee. Unfortunately no-one really itnereacted outside their 'group' that they were there with but we still had a fun arvo. At about 7ish we invited ourselves to our flatmate's friends "going away" drinks and had a fun time there before heading into a bar for a while. They had a thousand different flavours of vodka so of course i tried a couple of shots! next thing the music stopped and it was all over...they closed at 12.30am. and then the real adventure began of getting home... 3hours later!!! we had to change buses 3 times I think, and each time we had to wait at least 20mins cos they don't run very often at night. Plus there was a horrible drunk old man at one of the stops that wouldn't stop harrassing us. ICKY