Ian in London!

Ian in London!
Originally uploaded by Ada Lovelace.

early morning (somewhat after 11 o'clock) 23/12/04

Ian and I trounced down to London on the 22nd to see Josh Groban in concert and it was very good indeed! I even got my first album signed. He's such a cutie. And Ian liked his shoes! Ian thought he was pretty amazing as well which was great. We were waiting outside for him as well (because I was sad and wanted to see him again and maybe hopefully get a signature) and talking to some Grobies. Some of them were cool, some weren't, though it pains me to say that! The joke of the evening was "The bar!" Basically the security guards told us to get behind the bar, so we did, then some more fans turned up and stood in front of the bar and the security guards didn't say anything. Grrrr. So when Josh's van pulls up they surround the van and no Joshie for me. :( I got him to sign my album just as he was leaving though, but he didn't look too happy. I don't blame him!

After he left Ian and I went into Soho to get some chinese food at the Dragon Inn, it was pretty good and chock full at midnight. We ordered roast duck (which Ian loved), some tofu (which came with pak choi which I loved) and chicken and cashew nuts (over cooked and not so great) with rice. We finished eating around 1:30 I think but Ian saw this girl steal some wine (champagne?) from the chiller (shame on you, you drunken fool!) and confronted her. She told him it was on the bill. Yeah whatever. :/

We took the bus to South Kensington (we were staying just beyond the Kensington High Street) and walked for a while in the wrong direction (and for once I wasn't leading the way!) until this nice man pointed us the direction to go. I really needed to pee by the time we got back around 3. Between the two of us we had 3 teapots of chrystathemum tea at the restaurant. Then it was showers and straight to bed because we had to check out at 11 the next morning!