On Sunday Dave put a post on our family web pages about the pancakes he and Riley cooked up to celebrate a snowy day. Greg responded with news that he and Rachel had made pancakes because they seem just right on a snowy day. So while we still have snow on the ground, we whipped up a mess of blueberry buckwheat pancakes. Later in the day we ventured out to find that the snow is all gone everywhere but our yard. We went into the the post office to rent a box. Now we have a North Carolina address!
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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