Sunday, 6 May 2007
My weekend in pictures
A weekend of doing nothing - just catching up on sleep, lazing around the apartment, watching television and reading newspapers, sheer bliss. These are a few things that have caught my attention this lazy weekend, in pictures: 
Street Sense winning the 133rd Kentucky Derby with the Queen and Prince Phillip watching. Earlier in the week Elizabeth and Philip toured Jamestown, Virginia, celebrating its 400th anniversary as the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, where she lauded the "deep and enduring" ties that bind Britain and the United States.
A tornado containing 200mph winds tore through the small town of Greensburg, Kansas destroying 95% of the town's buildings, injuring 60 and killing 9. The tornado was estimated to be 1.7 miles wide and stayed on the ground for 22 miles.
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Street Sense winning the 133rd Kentucky Derby with the Queen and Prince Phillip watching. Earlier in the week Elizabeth and Philip toured Jamestown, Virginia, celebrating its 400th anniversary as the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, where she lauded the "deep and enduring" ties that bind Britain and the United States.
A tornado containing 200mph winds tore through the small town of Greensburg, Kansas destroying 95% of the town's buildings, injuring 60 and killing 9. The tornado was estimated to be 1.7 miles wide and stayed on the ground for 22 miles.
Chicago's celebration of the Polish Constitution of 1791 was held downtown Saturday for the 116th year. More than 1m Poles live in the Chicago vicinity, the largest outside of Poland. And on the same day, Cinco de Mayo, people drank margarita's and ate nachos to mark the Mexicans chasing off the French in 1862. It is said that Americans celebrate this day more than they do in Mexico.
I sat and watched Chelsea draw at Arsenal this morning, leaving Man Utd to the title, unfortunately it didn't really take my mind of the game at The Valley tomorrow. Last night Detroit Pistons murdered the Bulls 95-69 in the first game of the Eastern Conference semi's. Bulls' Ben Gordon's look sums it up.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, looks out on the crowd Sunday as he arrives to speak to a sold out audience at the Harris Theater at Millennium Park in Chicago. And finally there is nothing better than lounging around drinking tea and eating Laura's wholesome junk food banana split bites all weekend.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, looks out on the crowd Sunday as he arrives to speak to a sold out audience at the Harris Theater at Millennium Park in Chicago. And finally there is nothing better than lounging around drinking tea and eating Laura's wholesome junk food banana split bites all weekend.
