The day began with a trip to the Hyde Park LDS ward here in London. It was nice to be able to attend church and sing the hymns in English. I would say it was nice to understand everything, but sometimes I need a subtitle for these British people! The talks that were given were very lovely. My favorite was given by a foreign guy from some South American country. He had poor English, but what he did say was so profound. Our Sunday School teacher was this passionate British lady who spent most of the lesson yelling in the chapel because she was so excited. I was amused when she started talking about wanting to gun down a contractor who had jilted her out of 34,000 pounds, but rather shocked to hear that in church. I hear the darndest things in London!
After coming back and doing some blogging for a bit, it was time to head to our Lion King Broadway show. Unfortunately I had to attend it on a Sunday because the person who got our tickets didn’t counsel with us before deciding to get them on a Sunday when we couldn’t get them earlier in the weekend. When we got to the tube station, the line we needed to go on was closed and there was a sign saying it was due to a person under the track. We were all sick when we realized it meant someone had been run over by the tube.
After taking a detour, we made it to the Lyceum Theatre in Winchester and headed up to our seats in the balcony. The view was quite nice, and I was VERY excited to be seeing my first Broadway play. Although the dialogue and music was nearly IDENTICAL to the movie, the musical was worth seeing just for the costumes alone. Words cannot describe how amazing they were, as were the sets and the puppet-like things. It was a very enjoyable experience.
The last trip of the day was into a pub for some dinner. Pretty much every pub in London serves the traditional Sunday roast with potatoes and all the other standard trimmings. Unfortunately, when we got there they were out of the Sunday roast. Instead, I got a Cajun chicken burger. It was delicious! And so my day passed.
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