2015 - Day One

Already breaking resolutions.  I'm sorry, who am I kidding, I didn't make any resolutions.  We slept in, and I enjoyed every minute of it.  We finally got going around 1pm and went to lunch at The Portman (where we'd been a couple of nights ago).  We had a couple of delicious hamburgers and some beer.  So far, a pretty typical New Year's Day.

We decided not to go to far afield today and went, instead, to Hyde Park, a couple of blocks from our hotel, There, since before Christmas, was an entire Winter Wonderland.  I can only describe it as the Texas State Fair plus a Christmas Market.  Awesome!!!

One thing we've learned about English beers is that they're not very high ABV...and therefore, drinking all day is not such a big deal.  (Although, it's not like we never drink all day.)  But even after last night, neither Joe nor I was the least bit hung over.  It could be because we burned everything off watching the fireworks last night.

We anchored just south of the Eye

An amazing 20 minute salute to the new year.

We had a lovely dinner under the Globe Theatre and then boarded boats to sail the river until the show at midnight.  It was a wonderful evening!  

As I said, we slept in today and then went to the Winter Wonderland.  While there we found some awesome food and a couple of incredible biergartens and some great shopping.  It was the perfect thing to do today.

We passed up the Mulled Viking Blood for beer, but not before taking this shot:

And, Brett, we can't not think about when we see something like this:

Finally, I forgot to mention that we went to the Tate Modern before going to dinner last night.  My two favorite things were...Still Life with Beer Stein:

And whatever this was...What's brown and sounds like a bell?...

Tomorrow we're going to get up early (at least that's the plan) and go to the Abbey, then catch the changing of the guards.  It's our last day here, so I guess it's also packing day.  What a great ride!!