A Scrap of Life

Our final day abroad was simply finishing up some things we didn’t see our first stop in London. We started with Big Ben, Parliament and Westminster Abbey, all of which are under construction at the moment. We got to see some of them but it would have been better to see them in all their glory.  We jumped on the tube and got off near Buckingham Palace. There were no tours on Thursday and the Queen was in residence so we just took a look from outside. While there, the Queens Life Guard traveled by on their beautiful horses.  After that, we just walked down the street, past the park and to Trafalgar Square.  We loved the statue with the lions in the square and had to take pictures with it before moving on to our destination - Leicester Square. There we visited the TKTS booth where we got great (and cheap) tickets for the West End showing off The Lion King. We had lunch at a local venue that said business was down over 50%. I expect it will only get worse in the near future....

Today was a light day for us. We had a leisurely morning and breakfast at the hotel before waving goodbye to Disneyland Paris. We traveled by train for the first time this trip, taking the euro train from France to London. We got checked into our AirBNB in enough time to go grab dinner before our big event - Hamilton on London’s West End. We have been planning this since the beginning and were so excited! We had great seats center stage on the lower level. They were perfect! The show was really good - the king was the best king out of the three times we've seen it. He was HILARIOUS! I'm so glad we got to see it!  The most exciting thing was during intermission when Brian realized Colin Farrell was sitting 2 seats directly in front of him. I really didn’t believe him until I walked forward to “look at the stage” and heard his voice (ironically talking to someone about Coronavirus). I took a glance at him on the way back to my seat and sure enough, there he was.  We got to bed a...