Pizzas, Parks, and Perfect Weather

While the breakfast served at Highbury is very good, it is the same everyday and can thusly get old. We decided to spend our Saturday morning eating brunch with our friends. We looked for places on the internet and there was a place that was both close and had positive reviews called New London Cafe. We met our friends at the Underground station and walked with them to the cafe, discovering a new charity shop along the way. The food was fantastic and they even let us pay separately! The coffee was Jodi's favorite she's had so far in England. They tend to make it more bitter here. We both had a dish called "Ooh La La", which is basically cinnamon french toast with bacon.

After breakfast, we visited the charity shop we found before and some of the others came out with some good finds. We then went to the park near our flat and played football for a while until a 5-year-old showed us up... we switched to frisbee which, honestly, wasn't much better. But it was fun nonetheless. I have wanted to visit a Haagen Dazs restaurant (yes, it exists) since discovering it on Oxford Street 3 weeks ago but we hadn't had the time or stomach capacity before. I suggested it and we all went back to the Underground station. While on the train, however, we decided breakfast was sweet and substantial enough for our appetites so we got off at King's Cross Station to go to Platform 9 3/4. If you haven't read or watched Harry Potter, you're probably wondering how that exists. And you should probably also skip to the next paragraph. We went to Platform 9 3/4 but there was a queue far longer than any of us were willing to stand in. We might go back to the photo op when tourist season is over. Instead, we just went to the gift shop and pretended we could afford Harry Potter memorabilia.

On Sunday we all decided to go to the Catford Corps to surprise the Hobgoods. Jodi and I made it to the first transfer in Peckham Rye but I misread the screen which resulted in our waiting at the wrong platform. We saw our train come and go from across the tracks and discovered to our dismay that the next one didn't leave until after the service started. We took the Overground back into London and attended Regent Hall instead. While we were there, I was invited to Band and Songsters practice, which starts back up this week. Their rehearsals are on two different nights but I don't have much else to do on week nights yet... Jodi is only joining Songsters. After church we went to the London Eye, which is a massive ferris wheel right on the edge of the Thames. I attempted to make a time lapse video of the rotations but the sun was too direct for the lighting to work. The view was spectacular, though, and we could see for miles. Makes us appreciate the clear days while we have them.

Last night we had a "family dinner", as we have come to call them, with the rest of the Boundless 8, which is what we call the 8 Congress volunteers. Alexa and Kelly made the dough from scratch, which is pretty impressive. The rest of us were responsible for bringing sauce, toppings, drinks, or dessert. We have a standard procedure now where each of us brings a part of the meal and that also distributes the cost. The pizzas turned out better than we expected, considering we hadn't really made pizzas from scratch before. Next week I'll go over each of the Boundless 8 members so you know who we're talking about when we refer to them. If you want to know now, one of the other members has already done that in her blog.

Ooh La La.

 From the London Eye.

The Boundless 8. And Timon.