Boulder to London

Sorry for being a little slow on updates and posts.  The past week has been pretty busy with Thanksgiving, Melisse’s birthday and now I’m in Brussels for a training course.

Starting with Thanksgiving, it’s a holiday that is difficult to celebrate abroad.  This is my second international Thanksgiving (2005 in Costa Rica), but at least in ‘05 I was able to celebrate with friends before I left.  This year, Melisse and I had dinner at an Argentinian restaurant.  The food was good, but I was really craving some turkey, stuffing, potatoes, pumpkin pie and football. 

Moving forward a few days to Melisse’s birthday.  She turned 33 on Saturday and we celebrated most of the weekend.  Starting on Friday night, we attended a musical at the Phoenix Theatre titled Blood Brothers.  It was a pretty good show, but don’t expect a happy ending to this tale of twins that were separated at birth and raised on opposite sides of the tracks.  Following the show, we headed to a Spanish restaurant near the theatre for some Tapas and wine before calling it a night. 

On Saturday we continued the celebration.  We started with some coffee and pastries before heading to the Tate Britain for the Francis Bacon exhibit.  Melisse loved it, but Bacon was definitely a twisted dude.  Lesson learned was that I should study my artists before agreeing to go!  We followed up the trip to the museum with some champagne, cheese and olives back at the flat before dinner at Numero Uno.  Dinner was good, we drank plenty and Melisse had a happy b-day although I’m not sure she’s that excited about 33. 

We wrapped up the weekend with a run on Sunday morning before Melisse going into school to work on a project and me hopping a train to Brussels for a training class.