London is cool - Dangers of Champagne

But I am enjoying London alot. Alot more than I thought. For some reason I had thought London was small. London was boring. London was stuffy.

But it is not. The fact that museums are free makes visiting them and the city a pretty cool place to be. I like to go down to Tate Modern and see some of their exhibits. I have also been to the Natural History museum twice and the the gift shop of the Design Museum twice. The design museum charges - so I have only been going to the gift shop.

However, Kevin got into town yesterday and we went to the Design Museum. I figured that on my third visit to the gift shop, maybe I should actually go see the museum part. It was pretty interesting. The museum had alot of displays and identified the role of the designer as someone who builds visual representations of problems - or something like that. Anyway I think design is really cool (Doesn't everyone??). But me - I am now interested in taking a design course.

Kev and I also went to a pub and then went and saw the Spongebob Square Pants movie. The movie cost 12 pounds each. I am used to spending alot in London - so when Kev pointed out it was 25 dollars Canadian to see SpongeBob - it was a lot of money - I initially thought nothing of it. But after thinking about it... Actually 25 dollars is alot to see a movie. Anyway - London is expensive - I don't really need to say that because everyone else says London is expensive. But it doesn't really matter - it was a nice thing to do together.

A funny crazy thing happened when we got back to the hotel. Because Valentines day is on Monday there is a special promotion for couples where they get free champagne.

Well you might be thinking because Kevin and I are sharing a room that we would be able to get the Valentine's special. And that would be a funny story. But that did not happen.

What is funny/crazy is that there was this very very drunk girl on champagne telling everyone on Saturday to cheer up and party because it is Valentines. We were trying to get into the elevator. It was full and we were all telling the guy closest to the panel to 'PRESS THE BUTTON!!! PRESS THE BUTTON!!' before she could get into the elevator. It is not that the idea of being happy and celebrating isn't a bad one. It is just that when you are stone cold sober - you don't really want to interact with loud mouth drunkards.

Anyway she got into the elevator. Somehow figured out that we were not holding the door for her. But did give us a celebration lecture. Fortunately we were only on the fifth floor.

But that is just background. After we watched Spongebob SquarePants we came back to the hotel to have a couple pints to discuss character development, story telling dynamics and art direction in modern film. That and girls.

Anyway between our first and second round. The girl we had met earlier in the elevator was in a sunken area about 30 or 50ft away started yelling at her boyfriend. She then took the champagne bottle and threw it at him with all her might!

It missed the boyfriend,but hit someone in the arm behind him!

Undeterred: She then took her drink glass and threw that too! It shattered and sprayed glass all over the bar. Up the sunken area, over the banister and the table next to it - leaving glass in Kevin's hair!

The bouncers eventually got rid of her (She walked away, head up, putting her arm into the bouncer's arm). There were police involved. No one was hurt - but someone could have seriously been (glass in eye, maybe).

Clearly this should serve as a warning about serving champagne on Valentines.