Spring, the big tease.

I've been MIA for a while!  Sorry about that.....while I was gone, I finished my 8th busy season.  Say what???  I don't think they will ever be normal to me or easy, but this one was by far the best one I've ever had.  I love it over here.

2 weeks ago, while I was working like mad, I watched as Monday-Friday passed with 55+ degree temperatures and sun.  I unfortunately was unable to sneak outside during that time frame, which now I really regret.  Spring seemed to be here with full force.  I was riding my bike to work everyday, loving the 40+ degrees in the morning and evening when I got home.  Then Saturday turned to crap again.  Rain for 24 hours straight with temperatures hovering at freezing.  What a tease........I can deal with it when it's cold straight all the time, but peaking my hopes with warmer temperatures is just cruel.

However, because of the weather, these little diddies popped up outside of work and I took an opportunity to take a touristy picture as I was going in to work:

No idea what these flowers are, but purple and white....gorgeous. 

This week, I went to London for work.  It was pretty uneventful.  I flew out on Monday night after working in Amsterdam.  I stayed again at the Hilton Hyde Park.  Best rate I can find that's in a decent spot in the city.  And score - it's on the Central tube line, which happened to be the line the building I was working was at.  It was still about 8 stops from where I needed to be.  I still think that one of the greatest rushes in London is the commute.  Anything can happen....you could get run over on the way to the tube, crushed while in the tube, not be able to get out at your correct stop, etc.  I love it.  It's like playing Russian roulette before you've had breakfast.  And I've learned to not care about fashion....the fashion trainers are a necessary weapon to avoid getting crushed in the tube.  Seriously, it's an adrenaline rush.  Even better is to take your suit case in the tube in rush hour.  By the time I got to work, I felt like it was time to go home.

Anyways, when I got out of the tube at Liverpool Station, the first thing I see is:

Let's hear it Ags....that looks like a Freebirds right?!  Upon further web investigation, I found out that the College Station burrito heaven includes the "s" on Freebirds.  This one is Freebird (singular).  No idea if it's similar in quality, but for a second I thought I was close to home.

On Tuesday night, I happened to get off earlyish, which I really wasn't expecting.  I thought I'd be doing dinner with co-workers, but that didn't work out.  I made mad dash for the tube and got a half price ticket to Spamalot.  I'm a Holy Grail fan....I confess I haven't seen any other Monty Python's and it had been a while since I had seen the Holy Grail.  However, that made it better because the jokes were semi fresh for me.  Great show.  African swallow interaction is probably my favorite.  Or the coconuts.  Or the collective community discussion.  Or the "not dead yet".  GOODNESS.  I love that movie and musical.  Great theatre too.  I came back on Wednesday night late....so it's been a long week.  I haven't had dinner tonight and it's so cold outside that I really don't want to go out to get it.  Prediction:  I fall asleep on the couch and wake up at 2AM not knowing where I'm at.  And hungry.

Off to plan the weekend.  Go England!