London Day 2 - Wicked

We got up this morning and went downstairs for breakfast ... There is a complete breakfast included with the room. It was actually pretty good - really good for free ;-) They had bacon, scrambled eggs, fried eggs (sunny side up), beans (for breakfast - really), something else I didn't recognize, 3 kinds of cereal, toast as well as orange juice (really really bad) and apple juice (kinda bad), tea &/or coffee and water. We ate our fill and will undoubtedly go back again ... Then we went back to the room to get ready to hit the town and I fell asleep ... I think we finally got out around noon... When we're outside, it's a little nippy, but I'm wishing I had 10 pairs of shorts and t-shirts ... With the windbreaker that would be perfect ... One of the subways we were in today was SUPER HOT.

Anyway, we walked over to Buckingham Palace and saw the guards change shifts. We may go back Wednesday for the changing of the guard - but it's every other day this time of year and we missed it today ...


We took the toob out Picadilly Circus where we ate lunch at Biagio Chez Victor (Italian). The menu said it was suggestive only, so we added chicked to something that I cannot remember what they called, but it was green and white noodles with a cream sauce and mushrooms. It was really good.

We walked around a bit more before catching the toob back to Pimlico station and 4 blocks back to the hotel. After resting a bit, we're now ready to head back towards Victoria station and see WICKED.


Wicked, is of course, fantastic as always. Tonight made the 7th time we've seen it - once in New York with Idina playing Elphaba, twice more in New York but without Idina, twice in Houston and once in Atlanta. We'll see it twice more before we leave and have 2 sets of tickets for the Houston run in March. Yes, we LOVE wicked. That is the reason we came afterall - to see Idina in Wicked. There are some minor differences between the London show and the New York show and even the traveling tour. There are a few places where words were changed to make more sense to the London crowds. A set change in the opening act - there's no large hat (that's not in the traveling show either), although they replaced it with the shadow of the witch and a lot of flashy glimmering lights which is quite spectacular. AND no flying monkeys over the audience (again NY only). After the show we were able to get pictures taken with Martin Ball who portrays Dr. Dillamond in the show. (He's a goat.) We have been enjoying his BLOG on the show for several months now, so it was great to finally meet him. We still both get chills when we hear Idina sing the songs. We both get tears in our eyes when Elphaba and Glinda sing For Good - the song where they both express how they have been changed for good because they knew each other, and as long as we both continue to love the show, we will undoubtedly continue to see it.