Instead of the first weekend of December mom and I made it to London (no cancellations this time! Three is a charm...). We celebrated my brother's birthday, NYE (at Trafalgar Square) and enjoyed good food. Nando's a good place to have spicy chicken, but Slurp's an excellent place to have Japanese food (or Chinese or Thai, if that's what you prefer). Speaking of chicken; those Brits sure love their chicken. There are about two or three fried chicken shacks on every block (or so it seemed).
After waiting an eternity it was finally 5 minutes to midnight: that's when the BBC starts airing live footage (there were plenty of choppers flying overhead) and huge screens were showing it. A massive countdown preceded the fireworks... And then: 20 tons of fireworks was blasted into the sky over the course of 15 minutes. It was awesome! (I guess I can scratch this off my bucket list now.) I think, together with the fireworks at Milwaukee Pride, this was the best I've seen this year. Wait. Technically, Milwaukee Pride was last year.
Me enjoying my food (and double Jack and Coke) at Slurp :)
My brother sneakily shot that one... Doesn't his chicken teriyaki bento look drool inducing as well?
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