Saturday began with a tube ride that stopped short because of a "disturbance on the track" - not sure what that was all about but we opted to walk along the north side of the Thames. Walking is always easy here because of the endless pedestrian paths. We had a short guided tour through Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. The lady who toured us through appeared to be in her late 60s. She was extremely animated about the way things were back in the day of Shakespeare ...

June 5 Today started in the middle of the night. Poor Brennin picked up the bug that Darius had. Luckily by noon Brennin was able to drag himself onto the tube and over to the theatre to see Wicked. We were impressed by how efficient the theatre handled so many people. The Apollo Victoria theatre is decorated with an under the sea theme. The stage set was brilliant! Brennin, Darius, Belia, and Mariah all said it was their favorite musical that they have ev...

June 6 Everyone was feeling fine this morning. We left home around 9:15 and took the tube to Richmond, and then a bus to Hampton Court. Hampton Court Palace is way bigger than we realized. The kitchens, courtyards, and private apartments are vastly spacious. People in authentic tudor costume are placed throughout the palace to answer questions. Two strange facts that we came across were that all swans in England are property of the Queen. If you harm one...

June 3. Today we began the day by grocery shopping. It is convenient that the grocery store is only 3 blocks away from our flat. While standing in line to pay we saw our first example of pick pocketing. Shouting came from a man behind us, and then a woman came running past us. The man ran after her shouting "she stole my wallet". She screamed and played dumb. After some miscommunication with his friend in the back of the store he let her go, but within secon...

Today (June. 3 )we began the day by grocery shopping. It is convenient that the grocery store is only 3 blocks away from our flat. While standing in line to pay we saw our first example of pick pocketing. Shouting came from a man behind us, and then a woman came running past us. The man ran after her shouting "she stole my wallet". She screamed and played dumb. After some miscommunication with his friend in the back of the store he let her go, but within sec...