Monday, 7 November:

Yesterday, Suzanne and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary. This year, we will finally be married for longer than we dated, so we are looking forward to that little tidbit. To celebrate, we went to the Tate and saw an exhibit on Degas, Latrec, and Sickert. The exhibit was very impressive and it was interesting to see all these paintings we have seen in text books in real life. I was amazed at the debauchery of late century Paris and to an extent London. Degas and Latrec were known to frequent the Moulin Rouge and both painted a number of prostitutes. I doubt their interest ended with paintings... I guess we always think of our own times as the height of debauchery, but there have been great monuments to debauchery in the past, we just miss the queues. On the way back, instead of hopping the closest subway, we enjoyed a wonderful walk in the rain as we headed towards parliament, which is a breathtaking building and walked over to the Victoria station before getting on the subway. We finished the day by going out for Thai food at a nearby restaurant. We were originally going to go to The Standard Indian, but it appears that they are not open on Sundays. So we decided to try a place called Khan's (more Indian food) but the "wine list" included fruit smoothies fruit juice and sparkling water. As we wanted to toast with something a bit more fermented, we left and settled on Thai food. The Panaeng was absolutely wonderful, though not very spicy, but the Krathong Tong was not very tasty, so that won't be a repeat order. We also had asparagus that was fantastic! (Oh and we (me) also enjoyed the fact that the Chargers finally got a win on a defensive last stand, rather than a loss like the rest of this season's close ones.)

Foam Feelings: The foam matress topper is absolutely life changing. I wish we had bought one sooner! My sister has an entire bed made out of memory foam, and we have slept on it a couple of times, but with close to a week on this topper after terrible mattresses for weeks, I am more than sold. Buy it from Overstock, as they are far cheaper than anything I have found here or in the U.S. Our memory foam pillows arrived today, so we are dying to try those out as well. They don't smell nearly as strong as the mattress topper did, so I think we will be able to use them tonight.

It is finally starting to get cold here. The temperatures are generally under 64 degrees farenheit. But I think all of our neighbors are determined to use their heat, because our apartment is usually pretty warm, despite windows being left open and the hallway is almost stifling. Even yesterday's walk in the rain was very cool, and I was glad to have a warm jacket.