Day 67 - London Eye

Today was a belated birthday day for me from my sister and her boyfriend. My present from Fiona and Bill was a ticket to go and see the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition in the Natural History Museam and then to be taken out for cocktails and a meal, in other words to be taken out and truly spoilt!

I arrived at my sister's last night. We had a meal and a few glasses of wine then had a trip down memory lane playing Operation!! Fiona took the day off work today so we could spend the day together in London, we had a relaxing breakfast then I went into town to get some "stock shots" of landmarks. I am trying to build up a portfolio of shots which I could sell either commercially or as framed/canvas prints. I had a good walk along the south bank and ended up at Westminster before I got the tube to South Kennsington to meet Fiona and Bill. We then went to the Wildlife Photographer Exhibition and met our friend Stephan there who is also a photographer so it was great going round the photos with him. The photographs were amazing and it was really difficult trying to pick a favourite, quite inspirational.

We spent 2 hrs in the exhibition and I think we could have stayed there longer if it wasn't for the fact they were closing the museam! Fiona then found a great little bar for us to go and have a few drinks before dinner. It was just round the corner in South Ken called "Janets" and did some killer cocktails...I was impressed we were able to walk to the restaurant for dinner! Bill had chosen Gauchos, an Argentinian Steak House because he went there with work for their Christmas meal. Funnily enough we all had steak and it was AMAZING!! They bring you round this platter with all the different cuts of meat on it so you can choose which part of steak you want. An expensive meal...but I wasn't paying...and it was so worth it!

Day 67 has been a great day.

I took loads of photos today so trying to choose one was quite hard! I've picked this one as it was one of the ones which stood out when Bill was looking through them on the back of my camera. He said it looked really tranquil and he'd even pay to have that on his wall....I'm going to hold him to that!