The Week #326 & #327

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  • 🇬🇧 If you follow my full RSS feed, you'll know I was in the UK last week. As I was busy with work I decided to combine the past 2 weeks into a single post.
  • 🖼️ Despite all of my visits to the UK over the years, I never managed to make it to The National Gallery. I wish I had gone sooner. It reminded me of art history in college. Such a concentration of great art from throughout the ages and they just let you see it. I found it quite moving.
  • 🇯🇵 Outside of the museum on that day in Trafalgar Square was a Japan festival. I didn't go in (because I was in Japan 24 hour earlier), but it was good to see the Japanese community out there. 

    On the 3DS there's a feature where if you pass by someone that also has a 3DS, they exchange Miis and you can collect them. I had my 3DS in my bag and got my passing by friend!
  • 🏃 I haven't been running lately. A bit burned out, a bit bored. I don't know exactly why. I brought my running stuff to London with the intention to run. And I told my co-worker to also bring his running stuff. I didn't go running when I was jet lagged as it's quite dark when you're up and jet lagged and thought I wouldn't go out. Then my co-worker messaged me about going for a run, and so we did – a 30-ish minute run around 5:45 / 6am. It's nice to be able to talk with someone while you run. We also got some good photos of Tower Bridge at night.Very  happy we kept each other accountable. 
    Tower Brdige

    The Shard
  • ⭐️ I flew enough this year to get Star Alliance Gold, which gives me lounge access and priority bits and bobs when traveling. Perhaps more importantly, I was able to apply to upgrade my ANA Card with the Super Flyers card, which will let me retain status even if I don't fly enough and with a family card, get all of us into the lounge even when flying economy.