After parking and shopping at Target, lunch at Pearl, & shopping at Kohl’s, we climbed into the camper for an afternoon nap. After she got off work, Lou met us in the parking lot of Target in Mountain View. From there we headed to a storage place and parked the camper for a five day stay then back to Lou’s apartment to find an on street parking space for Eric the Red, drink some excellent wine, walk out to dinner, and a visit with Megan and Jason.
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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