Saturday, June 2, 2007

Macbeth and a Whirlwind tour of London

Beth was great and got us tickets to a show at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre where she was working. We watched the matinee performance of Macbeth and enjoyed it very much ("Out damn spot!")!! What a great theatre! Thanks Beth!

Did lots of walking today, through Regent's Park, Green's Park, Hyde Park then St.James Park, past Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, BigBen, Westminster Abbey, and Trafalgar Square. It was a whirlwind tour, but it was still nice to catch glimpses of them all... just means we'll have to come back again soon to do a proper job of visiting. Unfortunately/Fortunately, we found the famous pigeons of Trafalgar Square to be missing (apparently they were 'banned' a year or two ago)! The parks were lovely to walk through with so many Londonites relaxing and enjoying the open green spaces.

Stephen was excited to be able to catch some of the live Sens game, with the puck being dropped at 1:30am England time. He managed to stay awake for the first 10 minutes of the game (which were terrible) and then fell asleep only to miss the rest of the game which ended up being the most exciting yet!

Go Sens go (1-2)!!

Hours of walking: 4


Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

Big Ben

People relaxing in Regent's Park

Pelicans, what pelicans?

Buckingham Palace with tourist
Trafalgar Square (minus pigeons)

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