Our play today is James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave in "Driving Miss Daisy". It was magnificent...such a beautiful emotional story, and our actors were superb. We had good seats--front row of the balcony (very small seats and small aisles, too, I might add). There was no intermission - just the story in its entirety, which was great. It was a great experience for us.
After the play, we went next door to the tube stop and headed back to Wanstead...we planned to walk up to The Cuckfield pub, which was a pretty good hike..and it was not disappointing at all--except that the first 3 things we ordered for dinner, they were already out of! We finally picked something that was available..and consumed a pint of cider and enjoyed the people-watching. We do wish pubs like this would catch on in the US, but they don't seem to--such a shame.
We were walking on Sunday morning when all the shops are closed, to Starbucks for our morning coffee, and as we crossed the street, I commented to Jerry that the delivery man had delivered a large box and just left it in the doorway of a children's shop a couple of doors down from Starbucks. I mentioned the news story I had read about how many packages like that are being stolen and showed the ways it was happening. When we came out of Starbucks and walked back down the street, we noticed a lady standing in the doorway of that store. The box was open, and she had a small suitcase on wheels that was lying open and she was going through the contents of the box one item at a time, and stuffing what she wanted in to her suitcase. As we crossed the street, we saw her close up the box and lay it back up against the door of the store and leave, pulling her suitcase behind her. How sad!
The Lord's Day - sun shining brightly in the windows! What a joy! We have seen lots more sunshine than five years ago! We worshiped this morning at Westminster Abbey - lovely service, communion--very special. There is NO heat inside the building so one never takes off ones coat. Well, that was tolerable this morning but it surely was NOT this evening. We went back for a service of organ music and readings--and we were not pleased with the organ music. But its a magnificent instrument and the acoustics are incredible.
When we left worship this morning, we stopped for coffee at Starbucks, shared a sandwich..and walked - but didn't know where we were going, and obviously didn't go the right way, and walked miles (so it seemed). We decided to walk across the Thames at the Vauxhall Bridge, which we did...then asked the bus driver how to get to the London Eye and he took us all the way nearly to the door! Folks really do want to be helpful.
The Eye was quite an experience - we had gorgeous weather...sunshine, lots of clouds, just starting to turn dusk. Such a treat!
From there, we walked along the Thames again, back to Westminster Bridge and walked across the river, back to the Westminster area, straight to the Albert Pub where we shared a British Pub platter and a pint! And then back to church for the organ/readings concert. Truly a glorious Lord's Day..and what a joy to be here in this location on earth
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