We spent some time this morning enjoying the view from under our awning while savoring our first cuppa. This is a pretty county park campground near Cannon Falls, MN. While we were cooking breakfast we were absolutely delighted to get a phone call from Fr Jim. We’ve gotten to know him these several months as he has ministered to an extemporaneous group of Catholics in WNC. He’d not seen us for several weeks and called to find out if we were doing okay. It was a wonderful conversation!
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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