I have been diligently exploring London while Jim has been at work, but now I am tired, so, at this point, I am planning just to hang around Greenwich today. It's a beautiful day and would be the perfect day to go out to Kew Gardens or something beautiful dayish like that, but I just don't have it in me right now.
Yesterday, I met up with a new friend, Carolina, for lunch at the Sotheby's Cafe. It was reasonably priced, considering the location (very posh area) and the food was delicious! We were surrounded by well dressed people (I wore jeans...whoops!) speaking all different languages and dining between auctions. We had salads and soup and we each got dessert (I had pistachio cake with apricot yogurt's fool, which was delicious!) and tea. Then we walked around Bond Street, where all the high designer stores are. I saw a beautiful Tod's handbag in the window of the Tod's store and a 33 carat yellow diamond ring. It was all very extravagent and we wondered how many sales a day those types of places need to make to stay in business. With the rich and the famous around, they probably don't have too many problems and they provide great window shopping for the rest of us.
We also took a look up the street at the Ritz Carlton and Green Park, which is a park that has no flowers, only green. I read that the reason for this is because a king (can't remember which one) said he was going to pick a flower for the most beautiful woman around and then gave it to a chambermaid instead of to the queen. So, in a rage, the queen ordered that all flowers be removed from the gardens--thus, Green Park.
We're going to see Borat tonight. I have never seen Ali G, so I have no expectations or preconceived notions. All I know is that Jim is VERY excited to see the movie. And the New York times has a pretty funny slide show of "Borat" in their style section.
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