Day 5 I’m a scientist; what can I do but observe?

Well surprise surprise, we didn’t get up until after 2:00... BUT we did shower! Very exciting, we went three days without showering! After we showered ate etc we went back to the Tate Modern Museum and finished looking at the art stuff. We were going to try to squeeze in some more sight-seeing, but Victor wanted us to call him on a phone that he had found in the street to see what he was up to, so we did. The conversation whent like this, “’ello!” - “Hey Victor, whats going on?” - “I am drinking cider! Do you have any plans?” - “We were going to go back to Buckingham to take some pictures…” - “Good! I have a better idea! Why don’t you come up to the canals so we can have a fire with some friends, if they are still alive, and then we can drink some cider.” He then told us how to get there and on the way we scoured off-license stores for a bottle of Sailor Jerry to give to Victor as a gift for letting us stay. Anyway, we met up with Victor and on the way to the canals, which is apparently a sweet way to live in London - on a house boat, in a canal that is - I finally got to stop and pick blackberries! Actually Victor, Alyssa (at her reluctance at first), and I all pick loads of blackberries that were huge! The plants were wild but there was a patch that was maybe a quarter of an acre AND there were comparable patches the entire way along the path! But enough about the berries; we ended up meeting Victor’s friends which were rather surprising in character after having gotten to know Victor rather well, but maybe not given all that we have learned/been told about Londoners since arriving…..Maybe later we’ll digress more about the people of this strange land. We eventually rode back after a fire and said goodbye to Victor since he had to leave the next day to go for his mechanics testing.

SIDE NOTE: Just because I don’t want to eat as many blackberries as David doesn’t mean I was reluctant to stop and eat them. They were really good and FREE. I can control the urge and not stop every 5 minutes to pick some damn berries that are “high in anti-oxidants”.