London
Taryn and I decided before she came over that we wanted to go to Wicked when we visited London. Wicked, in case you did not know, is a musical based on a book by the same name and is also loosely based on the Wizard of Oz. It is a story of the Wicked witch. Taryn and I both read the book and both had wanted to see the musical.
We arrived in London by bus on Monday, the 6th of February around 5pm. We headed to our hotel where we would stay that night. Because we are traveling and cheap ;) we stayed at a very small hotel that cost us 33 pounds for our one night stay which is bloody good for London and how close it was to Victoria station and the sights.
We put on our dresses and high heels and headed to the Apollo Victoria theatre for Wicked. We paid 29 pounds for each ticket in the nosebleeds (again because we are cheap) hoping that not a lot of people would show up and we could move to better seats. Luckily, no one expected anything when we moved to the best seats in the balcony during the first part of the show. Then during intermission, we snuck even closer to the second row of chairs in the closest seating. We could see everything! The show was amazing however we realized that we were overdressed. People were wearing sweatpants to the theater, it was shameful! Taryn and I decided that we were definitely going to go to the Lion King in New York for our next musical because well, it would be awesome.
The next morning, we headed into London to the usual tourist sites. I had been to London last November when I first visited Harvey, so I somewhat knew where we were walking. We walked past Buckingham Palace to Trafalgar Square where we saw the Olympic clock which counts down until the 2012 London Olympics. We walked to the London eye saw Big Ben, the Houses of parliament, and Westminster abbey.
It was a long, cold, and beautiful day.
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