We’ve both visited the Great Salt Lake. Steve remembers swimming here when his family toured The West in their brand new ’56 Chevy sedan and Karen trekked through the snow to gaze at this salty lake when her family came here to visit family at Christmas ’65 in their red ’62 Chevy station wagon named Clyde. Together this is our third trip to SLC but our first joint visit to this geologic artifact of Lake Bonneville. A geocache search brought us to this spot, the Saltair pavilion, the third iteration of a great entertainment and bathing facility on the shore of the lake.
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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