Paul lives and Roxy gets off
We woke up this morning a little earlier than the day before, but not by much. Our plan was to do the Beatles Tour, and we had to hustle to get there. Jumped in a train just in time to make it. The Tour itself was quite good. The guy really knew his stuff. We saw places where they filmed "Hard Days Night", we saw houses they rented, we saw Jane Asher's basement, and we finished the tour at Abbey Road studios and the famous Abbey Road crossing walk. I've got some good pictures to upload when I have the chance. Melissa loved it, in case there was some question. We had lunch at the train station near Abbey Road, at a place called the Abbey Road Cafe. Bought some souvenirs, and little sandwiches, fought off a wasp, and hopped on a train.
Being in London, the town famous for West End musicals, we figured we should see one. Thankfully the tkts booth is a great way to get cheap tickets for that day. I remember using the one in the Twin Towers weirdly enough. Anyway, we went to Leicester Square and got half price tickets to Chicago. Melissa clearly couldn't have planned this day better. But wait there's more.
With a little time to spare before we had to head back to the hotel so we headed down the South Bank and walked one of the Rick Steve's self guided tour. Basically the South Bank is where the naughty part of London was back in Shakespeare's day, so it was pretty much the only place he hung out. Pubs, brothels, the Rose, the Globe, the Clink prison, you get the idea. We didn't tour anything since we didn't have much time, but just walking down those cobblestone streets where people walked way back when was amazing. And of course we picked up groundling tickets to a Shakespeare play on Tuesday. Awesome.
The restaurant was at the hotel was booked, so we went down to the theater district to find some food. Wound up at a place called Garfunkle's. Took a little while to get seated but the food was decent. I had bangers and mash just cause and Melissa had some pizza thing.
The play was fantastic. I truly believe Chicago works much better as a play than as a movie, though it did take me a while to get used to a tall leggy blond playing Velma. Anyway, the presentation was great, they band on stage was hot, and it all just worked. If only the 50 foot Amazon woman in front of me would have stopped wiggling around. Ugh. Melissa seemed pretty impressed with the whole thing and that to me was a good sign.
After the play we went back to the hotel, had some beer from the cellar pull in the pub, and went back up to the room.
Tomorrow, St. Paul's and ... Jerry!!
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Your stamina is something else. But, back here in the States, it's time for football. So here are the highs & lows-------
Auburn - 34 vs Ms. St. - 0
LSU - 45 vs. Arizona - 3
Tulane - 7 vs. Houston - can't count that high
and,the big one---
Texas - 7 vs. Oh. St. - 24.Sorry!
So, remember--the love U take is = to the love U make!
My first instinct this morning was to torn on sports center and find Chris Berman for the score. All I got was the BBC 24 hour news channel talking about Cricket! Thanks for the score. I am sure the game was interesting to say the least. Glad I am not in Austin right now.
All in all, the game was closer than the score. Our quarterback can't pass... I mean, the poor guy is having to cut his teeth playing Ohio State. Also, Selvin Young did drop a well thrown pass forcing a punt on a drive that could have put us back in the game.
All in all, by the end of the year, I think we'll have a solid team... nothing compared to last year (why did you have to leave Vince?!?!) but it will be alright. As long as we beat OU and A&M I'll be happy.
I am going to ignore Taylor's remarks about beating A&M. The highlights of the game for me have nothing to do with the actual football. First, our seats this year are right under Matthew McConaughey's box. So not only do people still throw ice cream, we saw McConaughey, Lance Amrstrong, and Jake Gyllenhaal up close and personal.
The ginormous new jumbotron is impressive, and the close caption what the refs are saying, which is nice for me. However, whoever is doing the captioning is a little rusty--at some point, Ohio State got a 5 year penalty, instead of a 5 yard penalty. They have a new minotaur animation, and the strange "heif-er" animation, as Katie dubbed it, appears to be gone.
Also the Ohio State drum major is a crazy fool who can both get down and twirl a baton like nobody's business.
Sounds like today was a near perfect day for Melissa.
What a fun day -- upload some pics when you get a chance. :o)
I didn't know you guys took a Rick Steves guide along - that worked well most of the time. Did the walking tour end at the museum that looks like a factory (and the Millennium Bridge)? If so, I think I did the same one.
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