Mind the Bloody Gap

So this year for my birthday, my amazingly fabulous hubby decided that it would be a good idea to get me something pretty special: tickets to see Doctor Who Live. Now for some 28 year olds this would not be the best present in the world but for me, I could not have been more excited. The show was basically a live action version of the TV show with an orchestra on stage as well as an alien battle. Oooohhhh yeah.

The show was on the evening of October 16th and I had been sick the entire previous week. We took the train out to Wembley and I pumped myself with as much cold meds as I could handle. Walking up to the arena was such a fun sight. There were all these little boys and girls dressed up as Doctor Who. They were wearing suit jackets, bow ties and suspenders. They were all so adorable.

After purchasing my obligatory T-shirt and program we stepped into the massive arena and walked right up to the SECOND ROW BABY!!! Oh yeah. One row back from all the action, but one of the coolest things about this performance was that all the aliens walked through the aisles to get to the stage. Now guess who was sitting in an aisle seat? (thumbs pointing at me) THIS GUY. I could have touched all the aliens. It was kinda a big deal. The show itself was so much fun and I couldn't have asked for a better night..sniffles and all :)

Now if you are a Doctor Who fan you will love the video I've put together. Its little snippets of the show so you deffo won't understand the plot but its still pretty amazing. If you haven't seen the show its a good introduction to this brilliant program.

Oh and as a side note. There was this adorable little boy sitting behind us who you can hear a couple times throughout this. When the weeping angels are there he says "Daddy I don't like it, I don't like it" And in the second clip with the Clockwork Robots he holds up his toy sonic screwdriver, points it at one of the robots and yells "I GOT ONE" He was just the sweetest little thing.

Hope you enjoy

So as some of you may have seen on facebook, I was ecstatic to find out that the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie is being filmed here in Greenwich. The film crew has taken over the university which is a 15 min walk from my front door!!!! So I decided that I should go and check out the scene to see what was going on. When I got there it was clear that they were still working on the set and filming had yet to start. They had security walking around but they didn't care at all if people started taking pictures so below I've got a few of them for you to take a gander at. And don't you worry. There will be much more to come.


Oh yeah. The horses are here. Johnny's bum may ride on one of these bad boys.

Part of the set. I think its great seeing all the scaffolding and fake buildings :)


Flags hanging between the campus buildings

The dining area for the whole cast.

Giant blue screen set up to block out the non-piratey looking street in the background.

A random little set. I think they did a great job and it looks real until you walk behind it and see its just the face of the building. :)

More blue screens set up to block out modern day London

So here is a video from when we headed out to Royal Ascot. Ascot is a very famous horse race thats been going on for almost 300 years. If you've ever seen the movie My Fair Lady its the race they all go to and all the heads turn when the horses run by. I felt just like Audrey.

We had tickets for the Royal enclosure which is the swanky prestigious area that the queen sits in too. Oh yeah......I'm that cool. I roll with the queen. The dress code is strictly enforced, for women only a day dress with a hat or fascinator (big feathers in your hair) is allowed and there are rules about the length of the dress and women can't show bare midriffs or shoulders. Men have to wear a black or grey morning dress (suit with vest and tails) and top hat.

We had such a fun time. The pimms and champagne flowed freely and I can't tell you the last time I laughed so hard. Thanks for making it a great day Sarah, Gemma, Michael, Guy, Lucy and Andy!!!

So again I've been very lax about updating this thing but as usual life gets in the way.

Here is an old video that I took maybe 6 or 7 months ago. Totally forgot about it and then found the video the other day. Loves it. So this is of the Tower of London and the Tower Bridge. Many people think that the famous bridge you see in all the pictures is actually London Bridge but its not, it's actually called the Tower Bridge. So sorry Fergie...When you're London Bridge comes down it doesn't look nearly as cool as you would think :)

And another thing. I speak about how Henry VIII switched over to the "church of London". Yeah...doesn't really exist. I meant the church of England.

Hope you enjoy!!!

So last post I showed you around some parts of the V&A and this week we're looking at my 2 favorite sections of the museum. The theatre and fashion/jewelery areas!!! Strangely enough I think these would be Joel's least favorite parts :)

Hope that you enjoy!!!

So today we venture to the Victoria and Albert museum. Its named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and it was founded in 1852 ( ya know...4 years after Wisconsin was declared a state :). Its a wonderful museum that focuses on decorative arts and design and you could spend an entire day there and not even see a snippet of the 4.5 million objects housed there. It is my favorite museum in London and today I'll be walking you through some of the amazing galleries.

Oh and as for the music. I'm still quite Eurovision crazy so the first song is the winning one from Germany and the second one is the song from Lithuania. Hope you enjoy!!!

Well the final show was outstanding! First the evening started out with a quite sad episode of Dr. Who. Sad but outstanding as usual. Then there was 3 hours and 15 mins of fabulous Euriovision final. About 125 million people throughout the world watch the show including 3 people at the Stone-Kilsdonk household (and the third of course is Sarah. My sister by decision :). The show was great, performance after performance. One thing that was pretty cool was that while the votes were being tallied at the end, they did a flash mob throughout Europe. I don't know if you all know what a flash mob is but its where a large group of people suddenly assemble in a public place and perform something random. They had choreographed dances all over in places like france, england, germany, lithuania, estonia etc. It was really cool. And then they had the entire crowd at the arena perform a dance too. Pretty sweet.

The winner turned out to be Germany which was alright by me. Its a great song by Lena called Satellite. Really catchy and gets stuck in your head. She won by quite a landslide. I still would have liked Belgium to win but they still did well so that's alright. The other top 10 countries went in this order.

1	Germany	Lena	Satellite	246
2	Turkey	maNga	We Could Be The Same	170
3	Romania	Paula Seling & Ovi	Playing With Fire	162
4	Denmark	Chanée & N'evergreen	In A Moment Like This	149
5	Azerbaijan	Safura	Drip Drop	145
6	Belgium	Tom Dice	Me And My Guitar	143
7	Armenia	Eva Rivas	Apricot Stone	141
8	Greece	Giorgos Alkaios & Friends	OPA	140
9	Georgia	Sofia Nizharadze	Shine	136
10	Ukraine	Alyosha	Sweet People	108

I'm ok with the top 10 other than Georgia, Armenia and Denmark. Armenia and Denmark got votes because of hot female singers. But as for Denmark...I am just kinda baffled on that one.



So I thought it might be fun to go back and show you a couple of past winners of Eurovision so you can see the range of acts that win.

1988 - Celine Dion. Oh yes. The lovely lady herself won Eurovision before she became famous...and surprisingly she won even though she wore that skirt and had that haircut. I guess it was the 80's after all.

1974 - Abba. If it weren't for this contest, the world would not have the addictive melodies of our favorite Swedes. Man do I love this song.

2006 - Lordi. Ok. If you haven't watched any other video that I've posted, this should be the one you watch. These are the winners from Finland and I kinda sat with my mouth open when I first saw it. Its pretty freaking amazing.