24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?

Today we got off to a late start. The dogs woke us up at 6:30am to be taken out, so after we brought them back in, we went back to sleep.


Daisy Adair vigilantly watching outside

We ended up sleeping until 10:00am which totally shocked us, but we were nice and rested for the day. We ended up taking the tube out to Earl's Court, grabbing some pasta and spectacular garlic bread at Zizzi and going to the British Beer Festival.



We had a lot of fun and I tried a few really great beers. Unfortunately, I was on call and couldn't try too many, but all of the ones that I tried were really good. Tami tried a few ciders and perries, but all of them were pretty bad, so it was pretty much a bust for her. She had fun anyway though.


Tami with her (bad) cider


inside the beer festival

Since we couldn't drink until they closed down, we decided to head over to Covent Garden to hang out a bit. Once we made it over there, we immediately headed for a place with ice cream to try and cool down. After that, we walked around the shops and looked and watched some of the street performers.


Covent Gardens

It was quite busy, and we ended up walking up and down a bunch of the side streets as well to check everything out. We finally ended up at a restaurant called Wahaca for supper. It was new, had only been opened for two weeks. The portions were fairly small in an order, almost like Mexican tapas, so we ended up splitting chicken tacos, frijoles tostados and chorizo and potato quesadillas. It was very good, although it was no Frontera or Cinco. We still need to find us a good tex/mex place here for a taste of home.

Since we were full, we walked down the Leicester Square to look around and to see about tickets for "In Celebration", the play that is starring Orlando Bloom. We got tickets for next weekend, which is funny since next weekend is also when we are going to see Othello at the Globe Theatre. Guess we're going for a theme next weekend.

After that, we grabbed some coffee and hot chocolate and caught a bus back home so that we could see about the puppies. They were glad see us, so we ended up taking them on a nice long walk around the neighborhood.