We left North Canton in the rain and arrived in Marietta, in southern Ohio in the rain. We got ourselves a room at the Lafayette Hotel on the scenic Ohio River. We enjoyed a visit with Steve’s cousin, Dick at the Marietta Brewing Co. making plans for future adventures together.
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.
Looks like you timed you visit perfectly. We are getting 3 to 4 inches of snow over the course of the day and tonight. It looks like Cullowhee is going to be nice and warm compared to NE Ohio.
Greatly enjoyed the visit. Safe travels.