London, Day 5

Today was nice and relaxing- a change of pace my new lively London life ;) We slept in and Melissa made yummy American pancakes. 2 things about English pancakes:

-They are imposters; English pancakes are a crepe, NOT a pancake
- You can’t really buy boxed mixes; it’s all from scratch

We, in the Shaw household, stood strong against the British Pancake atrocities and made big fluffy American/Canadian pancakes. From scratch. We even had genuine maple syrup (all the way from Elgin, NB- Thanks to Uncle Wayne and Aunt Tanya) and fresh fruit- amazeballs.

After puttering around for most of the day, Melissa and Sam treated me to a night out! We headed to Hampstead- which is a rather posh area of London- for dinner and a night out.

Friends, we must take a moment and appreciate that my NB life has not given me must chance to expand into many foreign cuisines. I stick to basics. Imagine my skepticism when M and S told me that we were going to have mixed Asian food for supper- dim sum to be exact. However, being the versatile gal that I am, I decided to embrace it!
We ate at Dim T and just ordered for the whole table. It was a mixture of: Spicy Edamine, prawn chips, ginger and beef stir fry, chicken pad thai, salad and 3 kinds of dim sum (dim YUM). It was delicious. I tried everything (even the wasabi!) and I fell in love. A great love for Asian cuisine, particularly with dim sum and pad thai. Oh yes, and I ate the entire meal with chopsticks. Applause will be accepted ;) I am becoming oh-so-cultured.


After dinner, we headed to the Hampstead Theatre to watch ‘The Complaint’.

The set

It was good! Short and sweet. I didn’t quite ‘get it’ at first, but it was essentially (or at least, according to Sam’s interpretation) a commentary about how regimes (like Syria or Egypt) thrive off of issues and of getting people caught up in the bureaucracy/ the system. If they have no complaints to tend to, nor any people to oppress, then there is no regime. The very people that opposing the regime are the ones that are building it up. It definitely made you think!

The show was followed by bed. My bed, by the way, is fabulous. It is a futon, but it is like super futon. The mattress? Heaven. The pillows? Heaven. The duvet? Heaven. Let’s just say that I sleep like a baby!