Saturday and Sunday were days to hobnob with friends at the coffeeshop, visit the El Dorado Art Show at the elementary school, and to enjoy food and fun with family. Ryan, Jana, and Megan drove up from Albuquerque to spend Saturday night and Sunday with us. Of course we had to participate in the family tradition of several hands of multiple “solitaire”, an activity from which Steve & Bill routinely abstain.
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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