A "Trip" to the ER!

Ok before you start panicking - no Stu and I have not injured ourselves *touch wood*

I am referring to the events that unfolded last night at the Piccadilly Theatre, 15 minutes before Siobhan was just to hit the stage as "Sandra Dee" in Grease .......and hit the stage she did :(

After grabbing a quick (garlicy) chinese over in Chinatown, we all hurried back to the theatre to get our seats when disaster struck - Liam received a text that Siobhan had collected her ankle running off the stage after the matinée and was being rushed to the ER! Oh no!

Heading around to the stage door we see poor Siobhan hobbling out of her dressing room, wincing with pain at every step. Stu and Liam, being the gentlemen that they are (sometimes), decided it was best to carry Siobhan to the waiting black cab.

After waving Siobhan goodbye we decided to cash in our tickets and hit the pub to drown our sorrows. Being summer time it was still light at 830pm so we decided on some alfresco drinks at a pub near Carnaby Street - PIMMS time! Now alfresco drinking in Australia means you sit within a licensed area, close to the pub door and usually marked out with black and yellow hazard tape - not here - to Stu's amazement pub patrons were sprawled out all over the cobbled street surrounding the pub, drinks in hand, lapping up the warm English night. As Liam would say "BRILLIANT"!

Moving on we headed to "Sketch", the trendiest and weirdest restaurant/bar I have seen. This place looked like it should have been in Tate Modern not a restaurant/bar off of Regent Street! Heading through the ultra trendy restaurant, complete with its streaming video installations, we walked through a tiny door into the egg-shaped cocktail bar. It was like walking into a scene from Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton's editing) - from the tiny arched doorway the room exploded into a huge space complete with sunken bar.

"We'll have a spiced pear daiquiri, a lollipop cocktail and 2 champagne beers thanks".... and at 13 pounds a cocktail (that's like $25) we slowly sipped our cocktails and soaked up the atmosphere - we were only going to drink one. Suffice to say the cocktails were fantastic and we have a great first night in London!

UPDATE: Siobhan is out of ER and thank god nothing is broken. She just has to rest up and will be back on her feet in no time.

UPDATE 2: BA strikes are back on.... luckily our flight to Amsterdam was one of the chosen few not cancelled! Phew...