Lazy Day, Hyde Park, and Tapas at the right time

Not too much to report from today since neither Ruth or I felt too good and we stayed in most of the day because of it. At around 5pm, I figured I would check out the famous Hyde Park just about 3/4 mile from our flat. It turned out being a great roughly 8 mile run with three loops of the park complete with gold statues, Italian fountains, and Kensington Palace gardens. This enormous park was bustling with runners, dog walkers, bikers, roller bladers, and many more types of people. I wish we had these types of parks in more of the big cities in the States, besides just Central Park or Lakeshore Drive. Upon my return, Ruth and I headed out to get some food and some groceries. We stopped at a little Tapas place we ran into first. It was a great meal (Spanish rice and Bean casserole with sausage and chorizo) and the owners were the cutest Spanish couple Ruth had I had ever seen. The little bald husband would yell at the small TV set up in the restaurant whenever Spain (who was playing Ireland in Eurocup group play), would have a good shot on goal. When Torres scored he went crazy! After dinner, we grabbed groceries at the nearest Tesco Metro although we had some trouble with the self-scanning machine and the Indian employee was none too pleased. We got back to the flat just in time to beat the rain and catch the end of the Spain game, a blowout of underdog Ireland...maybe the Irish should stick to their pub-crawling ;)