Sunday, December 21, 2008

A Day of Rest

Alright after my posting yesterday we went out to dinner and then went to the Lion King! It was soooo cool. The costumes were amazing! andandand, yeah so apparently West End is the British equivalent of Broadway (just cheaper). Yeah and the environment was really different too, much more casual here too. Very good play, but I was just a little disappointed, because the English accents didn't quite fit the characters (except for ZaZu, and I guess Pumba) haha yeah well that is enough reviewing, but do know it was indeed amazing, and it really is too bad photographing them is illegal (and we still don't have a cord - hopefully when we go shopping tomorrow). Then we came back at 10:00ish
So Today being Sunday was a nice quiet day. We all slept in (through church even! :( ) until about one. Then after Lunch we went to a park and around to many sights of family significance (our old house, the park, the school where my dad went etc.). We spent about an hour at the park, just walking around while my parents reminisced about our spending so much time there. The college of tropical medicine was really a cool building, instead of having figureheads and gargoyles they had disease transmitting animals (ticks, fleas, rats, mosquitoes, cobras, and more) on the sides of the buildings ans on the window rails. Now we're back and planning the rest of the week.
Also if you want to know the London times for the posts just add 7 hours to it, and subtract the 7 from London time to know it for Utah.

MikeR


This is Deb in a tree at the park we spent some time in (Jane Ricks)

Then this is my Dad in front of his old school - literally (Jane Ricks... or possibly Mike Ricks, we are not sure

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Grandpa and I went to Lion King in NYC when it was fairly new. We were high in the rafters, behind a pole and with no knee space, but I loved it and do remember the wonderful costumes.

We're planning lots of sleep for this week and I agree with Karen that the cold makes me tired. Love, Gr'ma B

Breanna said...

Sounds like a lot of fun! I love how you keep changing the font and the color. It's fascinating... :)