Spent the day just enjoying Mary Lou’s company. We started the day with a breakfast at Buck’s, a Redwood City tradition. Spent the afternoon outside on the patio reading, knitting, and just talking. In the evening we had a delicious dinner at the Elephant Bar in Fremont with Lou’s friend Nimfa. It was an altogether relaxing and fun day.
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.
I like the picture of the coffe cups clinking. who ever thought of that had a good idea. I assume Bucks is a local coffe place and not short for Starbucks. Mary M.