(oops - I always forget to post this last blog!)
Grant and I flew from Brussels to London, arriving at about noon London time. We stayed at the Marriott at Heathrow, so we checked in and dropped off our stuff, and we were in downtown London by 2.
Our first stop, of course, was the TKTS booth, where we scored two tickets to The Sound of Music at 50% off. After lunch, we walked to Westminster Abbey and then through Hyde Park towards Buckingham Palace. While at the park, I chatted it up with a teacher who was on a field trip with his "form 6" students (ages 10 - 11, what seemed like the equivalent to 5th grade…) These kids were getting ready to move on to their next school (like our middle school/junior high) and they got this one last fieldtrip to celebrate… a three day field trip to London! Can you imagine? (They were from another part of England, and many of them had never seen a big city like this before!)
Next, we headed towards the pier adjacent to the London Eye, and caught a narrated river cruise up and down the Thames - That was really cool, as it was a good orientation to the city and something we had never done before in London!
After a quick stop at a souvenir shop for some candy, we went to the London Palladium to see "The Sound of Music!" It was the same production that Andrew Lloyd Webber when he made the TV show "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" which did a talent search for someone to star as Maria. This was not the same person who won, but it was the same production whish we both enjoyed very much. We had good seats, too: Row N in the stalls (what we would call Orchestra) in the center section.
After the show, it was raining and windy, so we ducked into TGI Fridays at Piccadilly Circus and ate before catching our long subway ride back to Heathrow.
We arranged for a 2:00 check out, and left for the airport this afternoon to fly home!
Grant and I flew from Brussels to London, arriving at about noon London time. We stayed at the Marriott at Heathrow, so we checked in and dropped off our stuff, and we were in downtown London by 2.
Our first stop, of course, was the TKTS booth, where we scored two tickets to The Sound of Music at 50% off. After lunch, we walked to Westminster Abbey and then through Hyde Park towards Buckingham Palace. While at the park, I chatted it up with a teacher who was on a field trip with his "form 6" students (ages 10 - 11, what seemed like the equivalent to 5th grade…) These kids were getting ready to move on to their next school (like our middle school/junior high) and they got this one last fieldtrip to celebrate… a three day field trip to London! Can you imagine? (They were from another part of England, and many of them had never seen a big city like this before!)
Next, we headed towards the pier adjacent to the London Eye, and caught a narrated river cruise up and down the Thames - That was really cool, as it was a good orientation to the city and something we had never done before in London!
After a quick stop at a souvenir shop for some candy, we went to the London Palladium to see "The Sound of Music!" It was the same production that Andrew Lloyd Webber when he made the TV show "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" which did a talent search for someone to star as Maria. This was not the same person who won, but it was the same production whish we both enjoyed very much. We had good seats, too: Row N in the stalls (what we would call Orchestra) in the center section.
After the show, it was raining and windy, so we ducked into TGI Fridays at Piccadilly Circus and ate before catching our long subway ride back to Heathrow.
We arranged for a 2:00 check out, and left for the airport this afternoon to fly home!
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