This was the day of the board meeting (and Suzanne's birthday) and there was a celebratory (for board meeting) lunch afterward at which I had this tomato salad
as Shirley had the salad nicoise
and I then had asparagus soup
as Christopher was amused by tales of my photography
Much wine was enjoyed
as Clayton and I played dueling cameras
as Trevor and Dimitri attempted to have a more serious conversation
and my ice cream
and Clayton's Victorian sponge were served before we adjourned.
after a break, we headed out for the dinner celebration stopping in Covent Garden for a stroll where we found Maxwell's
and a traditional phone booth
on our way into the market
where a Shake Shack was about to open
and we saw these solar powered waving queens
while looking down on the largest imaginable pot of paella.
Walking on, we ran into Ben's cookies
and the Big Ben burger
before reaching The Ivy, our dinner destination
as shown by the linen
and after recording the menu
and the vegetarian menu I noticed that there was no photography allowed. Still, all in all, it was a fine meal.
On the way back to the hotel, we passed various shoes that might have been the ones Ben wanted
in the store called Author as shown by the American website.