The first outing after touching down in the U.K. was a trip to Brighton. We walked the day away, starting early from Brighton Pavilion and heading down to the pier. The weather was quite nice, with a bit of a breeze, but far from the icy bitterness that the east coast of the U.S. has been like, I still found use for my favorite cowl that Karen V made me for Christmas. We got some coffee and hot chocolate at Starbucks, and my feet were absolutely killing me, dispite being footed in Easy Spirit boots. It became quite clear that sneakers would be necessary.
We went into a really nice store with clothing and craft goods and found the most adorable little craft project. Bear in a Bag! I am working on knitting him now and it helps me a lot with my missing the little man. I hope that I can finish it before I see him on January 19th.
Monday evening we went to London to see Phantom of the Opera. Neil was working so he was already in London, and I had to find my way in on bus and train. It was very straightforward and there was no problem at all getting there. We walked through Trafalgar Square, where the tree was set up and I snapped a pic of Neil. What you can't see is that Big Ben was illuminated some distance behind. It was very pretty.
The show was good. I had never seen the show or the movie so I was not familiar with the story. It wasn't the best performance of it though, and Neil said that it wasn't a good performance of Phantom, but the show is a good one. Some of the characters were very good and I was very impressed with the set management, lighting, and costumes though, and the show was worth seeing. We had a nice time, and did our usual "snapshot at the theatre" pic.
