The Perfect "P" Day!

We had the Perfect "P" Day on Thursday, November 28, 2013--Thanksgiving!  We got up and took the train to Charing Cross and met the Johnsons from our five days in the MTC in Provo and spent the day and evening in LONDON!!!  We got there around lunch time and went to lunch in the "Crypt."  It's really a crypt!  It is underneath the church St Martin's-in-the-Fields.  It's a burial ground and we were walking on flat headstones in the floor.  It looked like it was "full."  Anyway we heard that they donate their proceeds to the homeless, so we thought it would be an appropriate place to eat on Thanksgiving.  At 1pm they had a 30 minute musical celebration of Christ the King.  It was very lovely!!!

 

We were able to hear the organ as well--kind of exciting.

 

 

Our friends Elder and Sister Johnson from Boise, ID.

 

 

  I thought this was an interesting window in this old church.  It was built in 1724--it's older than America!  There has been a church on this site since the Middle Ages.  It's also in Trafalgar Square.

 

 

This was in Covent Gardens.  That's a fun place to go.  They have all kinds of markets there and street performers that are always fun.  (My hair and London weather are not a great combination!)

 

 

This is a "live" Rudolph!

 

 

We went to a small London Movie Museum and we saw this and....

 

This!

 

 

This was Piccadilly Circus and the big bubble in the background was a giant snow globe.

 

 

Here's that English chap again.  I think he likes the name Byron. 

(If you ever get to London, they make the Best hamburgers!!!)

I forgot to mention that we had just eaten our Thanksgiving Dinner at a Mexican restaurant 

in Leicester Square.

It was good, but they still need help over here with the Mexican. 

 

 

And for the Finally--Byron took me to the London Coliseum to see Mozart's

"The Magic Flute"

You are right--we went to the Opera for Thanksgiving!!!

 

 

This was a wonderful Opera House.  It holds 2,000 people and it was full!  We had Great seats.  This was our first time to a "professional" opera and it was wonderful! The cast was amazing.  They had powerful voices.  This was a new Adventure!

 

We had a Great Day and Evening.  Thankfully we were close to the train station because we were on the Last train home to Gravesend from London!  We got there with just 10 minutes to spare.  Actually the train ride home was also an adventure.  The train was FULL when we left Charing Cross.  We were all cramped and we were tired.  We were sitting in a group area I looked up and someone was sitting beside us.  He wanted to talk, so we visited all the way to Dartford when he realized he was on the Wrong train.  It was midnight and he hopped off the train & waved good by to us.  It was pretty funny.  All the way home Byron kept asking him about his stop because we had never seen it.  He assured us that he was ok until he heard Dartford.  ha ha ha  It was quite funny. 

 

We've been here since August 10 and this was our first Big Adventure, and it was thoroughly enjoying!!!

 

Bye for now.