London Day 5

We started the day off again with breakfast ... although I'm running a bit slow - I seem to have gotten a cold - mostly post nasal drip so far - let's hope it stays that way ... and that it goes away soon.

I realize I haven't talked about our room yet. We originally ordered a double - but in London that means a double bed - so they gave us a twin - 2 twin beds so we at least have some sleeping room ... we're on the first floor - i.e. one floor up from ground - and we have a balcony wide enough to stand on - at least it's been nice having a door/window to open so we could cool off the room - there does not appear to be an a/c ... something we'll have to remember if we want to do a summer trip sometime - there is a radiator - which of course we have not needed ... anyway, our ensuite bathroom is a ready-made unit that is about 5 - 6 feet long, maybe 2-3 feet wide and about 7 feet tall ... you can quite literally sit on the commode and brush your teeth at the same time - as your legs are under the sink and you can lean over far enough to spit in the sink ... then on the right side is a round shower which is about 2 to 2-1/2 feet in diameter (this is included in the 5-6 feet long of the whole affair) ... i'm about an inch away from all the walls if i stand right in the middle of it ... but it has really HOT HOT water, so this morning i turned the whole thing into my own personal private sauna.


anyway - after breakfast, we were moving a little slow so it was probably about noon when we finally got out of the room ... we took the bus to Westminister Abbey where we bought our 10 pound each tickets to go through the abbey (i swear it used to be free). the building in the picture with mario is the Methodist Central Hall. We didn't tour it, just found it intersting architecturally.



after that, we caught the toob and went to the london bridge stop - being the typical tourists and forgetting that where we WANTED to go was the Tower of London Bridge which was a bit farther down ... but it was a reasonably pretty day to this point so we decided to just walk by the thames to get there ... the wind was picking up and the temperature dropping, i can honestly say i was cold ... it was probably 50. we stopped for lunch at a pub called Horniman's at Hays ... and no, I'm not making that up ... i don't have that much creativity in me right now ... lol .... the building on the far right is right at the tower bridge - i'm not sure what it was - but it was interesting to look at it...



after lunch we walked on down to the tower bridge - we got a little sprinkling of rain - enough to get the umbrellas out - but by the time we were actually on the bridge it had quit raining ... we walked across the bridge


in front of the tower of london - just outside the tube station was this statue - supposedly of Trajan which caught my fancy. then we caught the tube back to westminister where we caught the bus and headed back to the hotel.

our friends miguel and arturo are coming in today from monterrey, but we haven't been able to connect with them yet ... time will tell ... we rested for a bit and then caught the bus to go see wicked ... yes #8 ... as good as always and in some ways even better ... although Mario did point out a MAJOR line gaffe ... there is one point in the show where Madame Morrible (Miriam Margoyles) comes out to give Miss Glinda (Helen Dallimore) her magic wand, and she comes on stage and bellows Miss ELPHABA ... but give Helen credit to not let it throw her and I don't think most of the patrons even noticed ... I knew something wasn't right, but since they didn't skip a beat, I probably would have forgotten about it except Mario pointed it out ...

After the show, we grabbed a bite at McDonalds and caught the bus back to the room - hoping to have a message from Miguel and Arturo - but no luck.

I got online and bought tickets for us to see Mary Poppins tomorrow nite - it has come highly recommended by a number of people - and I managed to get 2 tickets in the center of row B - which APPEARS to be the front row - I can hope ... leg room and all that ya know ... Anyway, Katherine gets in in the morning and we'll be meeting her for lunch after catching the changing of the guard - we hope.... Should be another fun day.

Tonite we just closed the window in the bedroom - it's actually cool enough without the window - at least at the moment ...



Oh, yeah - happy halloween ;-)