Today’s our Fortieth Anniversary! And we are enjoying a fabulous celebration. We woke up in Adirondack Park in a room with a view of beautiful Lake Piseco. First order of business was to travel into Speculator for our annual Steak & Eggs breakfast at the Sunrise Diner. Then north toward Blue Mountain Lake with a stop at the Lewey Lake Campground. We’re inspired to plan another trip with kayaks. On to the Adirondack Museum. It’s billed as Adirondack BIG. And it is too big for just one visit. We must return. On the way back to Point Comfort we got ice cream in Lake Pleasant. Back at the campground we lingered through sunset until after dark enjoying the play of light on the water. To commemorate this day we treated ourselves to a painting that looks like this lakeshore!
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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