Been away for the weekend

Been down to London for the weekend with Maggie and Helena. Went to see We will Rock You on Saturday night. Can thoroughly recommend it. Entertaining, funny, a good evening.

This is the three of us in front of the Charlie Chaplin statue in Leicester Square - we "accosted" some guy to take this for us - Helena suggested we look around for someone who couldn't run as fast as us, just in case they decided they liked the look of my camera!!! It took us 2 or 3 minutes to stop laughing and start looking, and then this old guy walked toward us!!! hehehe.

Introduced Maggie to the V&A and the British museum..... don't think she was very impressed though! :-D She wasn't even very impressed with this..... This is the roof as you walk into the British Museum. The round building is the new (ish) Reading Room and I love the whole "old Victorian classical with new contemporary"!

We all liked this though... After we'd got our tickets for the show we wandered towards the museum and into China Town (at the Chinese New Year). All the streets were decorated like this and there was a lovely atmosphere. Very pretty, all the different coloured lanterns - although we were a little disappointed that they weren't lit up when we walked back this way after the theatre.

The show was at the Dominican and we were in the Dress Circle. Actually we had a very good view of the stage and I preferred this to the theatre when we went to see Dirty Dancing and were sat close to the front. This is the inside - before the show started - cameras are banned inside, but I figured no-one was going to mind beforehand. It's probably only so that you go and buy the expensive merchandise afterwards - £25 for a t-shirt??? Don't think so.... :-)

We stayed at Zoe's and most of our walking must have been from her flat to the tube station - and back again! Over 17,000 steps on Saturday according to the little gadget, and I think we did more than that on Friday! Whew! Need a week to recover from the weekend..

Anyway, it was great to go off for the weekend and not worry about anything except which show to go and see.... Intended going to see Mamma Mia but it's sold out from now until forever.... Happy with our choice though. Perhaps take Rodge to see it?

OK. It's late. Time for bed. Not working tomorrow - it being Monday - but things to do in the morning.

Back soon. xx