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We had a fantastic first day in London! We managed to cross four important things off our list of things to do here: walk around and explore, eat roast meat, spend some time in pubs, and eat some more pastis.

After waking up around 9:30 (a brutal 4:30 NY time…) we headed out to have lunch (a Sunday roast) at The Albion very cute little Georgian-era pub about a 20 minute walk from Whitney and Michael’s flat. The place was absolutely perfect – it had a great brick exterior, a wonderful fire going on the inside, and excellent mulled wine. Whit and I had the roast beef, and Taylor and Michael had roast pork belly. We finished off with sticky toffee pudding, and a chocolate plate.

In front of the Albion:

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Roast Beef, Carrot Mash and potatoes!

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Slow Roast Pork Belly!

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Sticky Toffee Pudding for Dessert (diet starts when we get back…)

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After lunch, we took a nearly 4 mile walk around the Regent’s Canal from Caledonian Road to Camden Lock and finally to Little Venice. There are these really narrow and super cute canal boats that go up and down the canal, and navigate their way through several locks. It’s a really beautiful walk, and there are great things to look at along the way, including Banksy graffiti, the Blow Up Bridge (which blew up after a boat carrying gun powder hit against the top of it) and the beautiful homes in Regent Park. It was great to walk around and do some exploring (see pictures below).

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canal boats, originally uploaded by TaylorDane.

And then we made it back to Whitney and Michael’s flat to eat some pastis and play some Wii! More tomorrow!

Check out this cool word cloud created from the most used words on TaylorandDana.com. Thanks woordle.net!

I’m surprised the word ‘porn’ is so small.

We are totally worn out from a great Christmas, so here’s a really cute picture of our sleepy puppy, Josie, to hold you over until we post again. Feel free to comment on the fabulous quality of this photo, which was taken with our awesome new camera. Happy almost 2K9!

This is pretty cool. They took the original Bud “Wassup” add and remade it for 2008 using all of the original actors.

September 19 every year is a very special day: International Talk Like a Pirate Day! You may be asking yourself two questions, which I will endeavor to answer in the likely order that you thought them.

(Q) Why is there an International Talk Like a Pirate Day?
(A) Because there arrrr. Seriously, probably just because pirates rule and pirate lingo rules even more.

(Q) How do Cap’n Brit Cannonbait (Dana) & Cap’n Benjamin Bloodbeard (Taylor) plan to celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day??
Obviously, first by figuring out our pirate names! Other activities may include: printing out some eye patches, potentially making a canon at work, printing out some decorative workplace signs, downloading this sweet app for our ayePhones…oh and we’re going to the Yankees game tonight. Happy TLAP day matey!