I got back yesterday from a week's skiing in St Anton, Austria with tired legs and an exhausted wallet, having had my fill of overpriced, mountain top spaghetti bolognaise and infuriatingly bouncy, innuendo-laden Europop such as Zwanzig Zentimeter.
It was a good trip but we got completely spanked on the Euro/Sterling exchange rate — it's certainly rare thing to return to London looking forward to the prospect of everything being much cheaper that it was when you were away.
Rather than spend much time on trip itself, the details of which would likely bore skiers and alienate non-skiers, I thought I'd write about the big news of the week — Barack Obama's inauguration.
It was three months ago that Obama won the election to be the next US President — tomorrow is his first day in the White House and today is Dubya's last.
And so this got me thinking about the things that might be on George's to do list to complete before he vacates the premises, and also what Barack might be looking forward to doing soon after his arrival.
George's list:
- Writing obscene messages on the mirrors in all of the bathrooms, to appear the first time they steam up
- Spelling out “Obama luvs Osama” in cress seeds on the White House lawn
- Changing all the speed dial numbers on the presidential hotline to the numbers for XXX chatlines
- Hiding small pieces of perishable food under the carpets and behind the paintings hanging in the Oval Office
Barack's list:
- Hearing Michelle call him Mr President for the first time during their “special quality time”
- Finding an excuse to have his first ride in Air Force One
- Deliberately triggering his personal alarm to see just how quick his security staff come running
- Inviting John McCain in to have a guided tour around round his new crib
- Summoning Keifer Sutherland to the White House and insisting they reenact key scenes from 24 with Barack as president David Palmer
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