No visit to Cincinnati, with the myriad of relatives that we have on both sides, is complete without a visit with Uncle Neil and Aunt Vi. We enjoyed a lunch with them at Bob Evans then a home baked dessert and coffee back at their apartment then regaled them with tales from the road and listened with interest to their family stories of then and now. Later in the day we managed to get some Graeter’s Ice Cream and in the evening enjoyed a Frisch’s meal with Cousin Mary and her friend.
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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