We stopped at the Big Water Visitors Center for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and received a grand education! Since it’s creation by President Clinton in the 1990’s this park has been the site of extensive paleontological study and the discovery of several new species of dinosaurs. We chatted with Merle Graffam who discovered a new species of dinosaur near there in 1999 and who is very well versed in the geologic history our planet.
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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