Our wedding anniversary was when we had the twins staying with us and so we postponed the celebration until today. What a day it was. We took Ellie to Rhys’s and Rhys then drove us to the station where we caught the train to London.
We began at Covent Garden. I have had a cough and bad chest and had forgotten that when we made the choice of the lift to ground level or the steps. We chose the spiral steps. For anyone who hasn’t been, there are 193 steps, the height of a 5 storey building. I was OK until about three quarters of the way up and then couldn’t stop coughing but did make it in the end after a short stop.
The other thing that made me feel old as this is the first time it has happened to me is that every time I was on the tube, someone stood up and offered me their seat!! This is the first time it has happened to me but I felt rather privileged. I suppose there are some positives to old age! I guess it was instilled into me at school that we were always the ones who had to offer our seats! Funny how things stick.
We managed a couple of Christmas presents in Covent Garden.
We then moved on to Oxford Street and a little more shopping there. I can’t say I was very impressed with this years lights. I remember as kids that was our treat to go and see the lights and also a visit to Hamleys to see Father Christmas.
In the evening we had a table booked in Mayfair at the Park Lane Hilton. It was a good meal, lovely staff and they looked after us well as we told them we had to get back to the Palladium by 8.00pm.
Then to the best part of the day….we had tickets to see Michael Ball and Alfie Boe. It was possibly one of the best concerts I have seen. Their voices compliment each other, they were amusing and in parts had fits of giggles but they were very serious with the more serious music. Even Mal said how good it was and he wasn’t very sure before we went, I just drag him along! We had excellent seats in the middle. The show was originally due to start at 7.30 but then they contacted everyone to say it had been moved to 8.15. This was because they were both appearing at the Royal Albert Hall in the Remembrance concert in the afternoon. Of course this meant the train we planned to catch back was a little more difficult as after 11pm, they only run one an hour!
They also had a “surprise”…..Rick Astley and he sang one number with them.
This was actually from the performance we went to.
After the performance we ran to Oxford Circus and managed to catch the train we intended. Rhys was waiting for us at the station at the other end. A brilliant day.
Thought for the Day – “Music is the language of the Spirit. It opens the secret life of bringing peace and abolishing strife.” ~ Kahil Gibran