Monday, May 01, 2006
May Day 2006
May Day 2006
This week flew as I was very busy at work and spent a couple very long days in the office.
Friday night I returned to the Yoga CoOp for class and had the good fortune to have the owner of the studio as my teacher for the evening. It was a good class and we worked very hard on upper body strength. On my way home from yoga I stopped at Rodizio Rico for dinner. I have been quite curious about this restaurant as a few other times when I passed it, it was quite crowded and had a very festive atmosphere. It is a Brazilian BBQ and the meat was FABULOUS! They walk around with these huge skewers with meat on them and give you a piece of two of whatever you want. They keep coming around with many different types of meat and you can have as much as you want. There is also a huge selection of veggies, salads, and other side dishes that are self serve. The pork ribs were my favorite and the filet was also delicious. I couldn’t figure out what these tiny little things on the skewer were as they were gone before they arrived at my table. When a skewer did make it to my table I was told they were chicken hearts to which the lovely blonde at the table across from me said, “Oh, the chicken hearts are the best.” I did take one and even cut a piece off of it but as soon as I saw the aorta running through the middle, I could not eat it. It must be a nurse thing. So, if you love chicken hearts, you know where to eat in London.
Saturday I made some very good progress getting all the stuff from my crate put away. I didn’t think I brought that much stuff but I have realised it is still too much for the amount of space I have. Stuff, how does one accumulate so much stuff?
Saturday night I went to my first theatre production. It was quite far in East London and I imagine would be akin to off-off Broadway in NYC. The musical was “The Harder They Come”, a theatre adaptation of the movie which was originally released in 1972. I do believe this production is the first live theatre staging of the story. It was a superb show. The cast all had very strong voices and could also dance and play music. Many of my all time favorite reggae songs are in the soundtrack which I believe I first purchased in 1976 or 1977. This production mixed things up a bit and did not include all the tracks from the original movie. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of the production and stayed after to listen to the exceptional band play a couple more reggae tunes after the stage performance was over. It was a most enjoyable evening.
Sunday I went to Bodies – the Exhibition. This is truly something to see. Check it out at www.bodiestheexhibition.com An edit from the web site: A human specimen is first preserved according to standard mortuary science. The specimen is then dissected to show whatever it is that someone wants to display. Once dissected, the specimen goes through a process to permanently fix it as it was and it never decays. There are 22 full body specimens and hundreds of organs, body systems, bones, and muscles displayed. It is amazing how much stuff we have packed into the middle of our bodies and it just works. Wow…how cool is that? One comment on the audio that really stuck with me was after the speaker was talking about how much stronger tendons and ligaments are and how muscles can only contract. The comment was “if we only had tendons and ligaments we would be super human in strength but would not be able to move and would be like a marionette needing some outside effort to move.” I thought that was fascinating.
Sunday night ended with a fabulous dinner at a lovely French restaurant called The Ledbury just a couple blocks from my flat. Four of us, all ladies, spent 3 hours enjoying our 3 course Prix Fixe dinner which seemed more like 6 courses as we kept getting little additions to the 3 courses. The presentation of the food was a work of art. It was so beautiful you didn’t even want to eat it but, of course, I ate every single bite from the first paper thin cracker with poppy seeds and cumin spiced goat cheese with truffle oil down to the last bit of feathery light chocolate mint macaroon. YUM!!!
Happy May Day!
This week flew as I was very busy at work and spent a couple very long days in the office.
Friday night I returned to the Yoga CoOp for class and had the good fortune to have the owner of the studio as my teacher for the evening. It was a good class and we worked very hard on upper body strength. On my way home from yoga I stopped at Rodizio Rico for dinner. I have been quite curious about this restaurant as a few other times when I passed it, it was quite crowded and had a very festive atmosphere. It is a Brazilian BBQ and the meat was FABULOUS! They walk around with these huge skewers with meat on them and give you a piece of two of whatever you want. They keep coming around with many different types of meat and you can have as much as you want. There is also a huge selection of veggies, salads, and other side dishes that are self serve. The pork ribs were my favorite and the filet was also delicious. I couldn’t figure out what these tiny little things on the skewer were as they were gone before they arrived at my table. When a skewer did make it to my table I was told they were chicken hearts to which the lovely blonde at the table across from me said, “Oh, the chicken hearts are the best.” I did take one and even cut a piece off of it but as soon as I saw the aorta running through the middle, I could not eat it. It must be a nurse thing. So, if you love chicken hearts, you know where to eat in London.
Saturday I made some very good progress getting all the stuff from my crate put away. I didn’t think I brought that much stuff but I have realised it is still too much for the amount of space I have. Stuff, how does one accumulate so much stuff?
Saturday night I went to my first theatre production. It was quite far in East London and I imagine would be akin to off-off Broadway in NYC. The musical was “The Harder They Come”, a theatre adaptation of the movie which was originally released in 1972. I do believe this production is the first live theatre staging of the story. It was a superb show. The cast all had very strong voices and could also dance and play music. Many of my all time favorite reggae songs are in the soundtrack which I believe I first purchased in 1976 or 1977. This production mixed things up a bit and did not include all the tracks from the original movie. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of the production and stayed after to listen to the exceptional band play a couple more reggae tunes after the stage performance was over. It was a most enjoyable evening.
Sunday I went to Bodies – the Exhibition. This is truly something to see. Check it out at www.bodiestheexhibition.com An edit from the web site: A human specimen is first preserved according to standard mortuary science. The specimen is then dissected to show whatever it is that someone wants to display. Once dissected, the specimen goes through a process to permanently fix it as it was and it never decays. There are 22 full body specimens and hundreds of organs, body systems, bones, and muscles displayed. It is amazing how much stuff we have packed into the middle of our bodies and it just works. Wow…how cool is that? One comment on the audio that really stuck with me was after the speaker was talking about how much stronger tendons and ligaments are and how muscles can only contract. The comment was “if we only had tendons and ligaments we would be super human in strength but would not be able to move and would be like a marionette needing some outside effort to move.” I thought that was fascinating.
Sunday night ended with a fabulous dinner at a lovely French restaurant called The Ledbury just a couple blocks from my flat. Four of us, all ladies, spent 3 hours enjoying our 3 course Prix Fixe dinner which seemed more like 6 courses as we kept getting little additions to the 3 courses. The presentation of the food was a work of art. It was so beautiful you didn’t even want to eat it but, of course, I ate every single bite from the first paper thin cracker with poppy seeds and cumin spiced goat cheese with truffle oil down to the last bit of feathery light chocolate mint macaroon. YUM!!!
Happy May Day!
# posted by Joy and Blues @ 9:06 am 
