Started the day with a stop by a stream hoping to see salmon run but we were a little too early in the season. Enjoyed a visit to the Alaska Native Heritage Center then back aboard the luxury motorcoach for the trip to Alyeeska Resort. A stop at the jade shop yielded raw material for future jewelry projects for Steve. Took the tram up to the top of the mountain. Enjoyed some playtime in the snow before enjoying an absolutely fabulous dinner with John & Amy at Seven Glaciers Restaurant at the top of the world.
Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.
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