The Past Week

I've been trying to come up with some sort of exciting blog update for the past week, but I don't have much to say about it.

Work kept me late every day of the week, average again being 8pm, sometimes later. The work itself isn't too strenuous and it's not 'full on', because the work we do has to be reviewed before they send us more work, so there is down time as well. Still, working so much puts a real downer on the extra curricular activites (like running....) because it takes an hour to get home.  Ah well.

Interesting things:

On June 18 it was the 70th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's French resistence speach, and because he'd set up his french resistance at my work offices, we had a visit from the President of France - Mr. Sarkozy and his supermodel wife Carla Bruni, and Prince Charles. The security for it was interesting - we weren't allowed out on our balcony but were able to open windows... After all the important people left us Interns were allowed downstairs and I took some photos of the boardrooms etc - I've had meetings in them already, but it felt cooler now that the people had been in them LOL!



On Saturday I went out to Newbury, in zone 4, to have a BBQ with the interns at one intern's home. It was pretty fun, all things considered... our grill was pretty epic:



My half-aunt Terri was back in town this weekend after a 2 week whirlwind tour of Europe, so I saw her both on Friday night out in Richmond, and then on Sunday.  That day we took a Thames River Cruise up to Greenwich and spent some fun hours in the market and sitting on the grass outside the Observatory, as well as getting the standard 'feet on each side of the meridian' photos.

This week my Firm is moving from Carlton Gardens to Park Lane, across from Hyde Park. I'm not sure how the week is going to be, work wise, as most of the office is getting packed up for the move. Next Monday I'll start a new commute!

Hopefully this weekend I can do some real tourist stuff! :) Hope all is well with everyone back home.