Quick update - GH

A couple of omissions from my last post (I was a bit distracted and in a hurry because I was in the bar of our hotel in Ireland watching the US Open and my battery was dying).

- More dog news. Saw on the news that the neighborhoods of Kensington and Chelsea are going to pass a law making it illegal to walk more than two dogs. Seriously. People are making money spending time on these issues. I hope the Chelsea coach gets two more dogs, smuggles them in on a private jet again and walks them to practice everyday through Chelsea, and then sneaks them back to Portugal when the cops come to quarantine them. So, I just read my earlier posts and realized that I didn't previously write about the Chelsea coach. Here's the context. We arrive in London back in May and Chelsea is set to play ManU for the FA Cup. It's huge. All day TV coverage, full papers dedicated to it, etc. Anyway, a couple of days before the game, the Chelsea coach is at the team's annual awards dinner when he gets a call from home and bolts out the door. He gets home to find the police there trying to quarantine his little dog. Turns out he just brought it in on a private jet from Portugal. He tells the police he will go and prepare the dog for them to take it and then comes back and tells them it ran away. Somehow it mysteriously turns up in Portugal again. He was pretty brazen about it after the fact, saying that London is now safe from a huge public safety threat. Google it. It's pretty funny.

- We finally signed up for a gym membership. It's a temporary deal because it's the one in the building of our 'serviced apartment'. Cost - $600USD for one month. Now, that's for both of us so it stays below mortgage payment status but that's easily a car payment.

- We had our first visitor. A buddy of mine from Wharton - Alex Casale had a business trip to London. Alex is my first (and hopefully only) friend with a minivan. It's a Mazda MPV that I had the pleasure to drive from Newtown CT to Boston and back. He claims it's a 'wagon'. I don't even engage in that debate it's such an absurd stance. Anyway, we splurged (actually he paid - but I think we owe him for some portion) and took him to our favorite pub - The Prince Regent. Here's a photo as well as some belated photos of our current apartment. Note the VCR (which doesn't play US format tapes supposedly) and door stops.

A post on Ireland is coming soon.