Spent a lot of today working with Lou and her new MacBook. We remember the stress of making the conversion from the Windows XP to Mac OS X. It’s frustrating when you know how to do it on the old computer and can’t figure out how to do it on the new one. Later in the day we got to enjoy pastries at Cloud Cliff Bakery and a massage by Rita. We finished the day by meeting Bill for dinner at The Railyard Restaurant and hearing his tales of the AERA Conference in Chicago.
Off the beaten path is Hampstead is the more than three hundred year old Burgh House with a fascinating history. It’s now a community center, local museum, gallery, concert venue, event space, and more open to the public four days a week. We popped over for a bite to eat and to peruse the galleries to learn a little more about Hampstead history.
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.
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