All in the family

"Porn: A Family Business?! Is it 11:00?" -Jon

Right now, the whole flat is camped out in front of the television. We're watching "Porn: A Family Business" and drinking cider which I'd say we've earned considering today we each turned in our first paper of the semester. It was three pages not including the title page or the works cited page.

Instead of packing a picnic dinner last night, we headed to the Mayor's Thames River Festival for the night parade and fireworks display with the intention of finding something to eat there. We all scrapped together some solid street food and chatted in a very European-looking patio under trees covered in blue and white twinkle lights until it was time to move to the river. Thirty minutes before the show, we walked down to the beach and watched the fireworks (which were launched from two barges on the river) right on the Thames with hundreds of other locals and tourists. The display was the best I've ever seen and I was so inspired by the whole event that I cried.

Unfortunately, a picture could never do the fireworks justice.

Tonight Ryan and I went to a new age production of "Twelfth Night" at a small theatre in Kilburn called the Tricycle Theatre. Even though we were late, the usher got us right in and threatened a woman who was saving two seats for a couple of her "no-show" friends to move or leave. She was irate and Ryan got to sit next to her for the entire show. I didn't really understand the show but at one point, they gave away pizza and two shots of Tequila to members of the audience.

Wednesday we're having soup night with some fun folks and tomorrow I'm going grocery shopping. This weekend we mastered the bus system which means we are no longer at the mercy of the underground that closes at 12:30 on a good night. Tomorrow I'm taking the bus to and from the grocery store just like a young professional might do at the end of a long day at the office.

Donna Vinter, our program director, gave Jon an acoustic guitar which means I'll be spending less time in the flat. Tonight, Ryan and I hid it under my comforter but Jon found it right away. I'm just teasing, Jon is a great musician (plus, the guitar doesn't have a D string which really limits the number of songs he can play).