Saturday Fun

The afternoon on the rainy Saturday was spent playing a new computer game- Mystery in London- with Michael and Jack. It is an investigation into the legend surrounding Jack the Ripper. We had fun and we learned many fun facts about various locations in London. We are having great fun doing just what I hoped we would do- have a good catch-up visit and also play games. 

The babysitter came about 5:30. Actually in England they are called "child minder" and Evitte from Hungary was the child minder for Ethan and Jack. Our mini-van arrived shortly after and the 5 of us were off to the West End for a fun evening out. We raced through the wild streets of London being very thankful that Joao, our driver from Portugal, was driving and not any one of us. 

We ate dinner at The Chinese Experience. We had found the restaurant on the internet and were thrilled to see how close it was to the theater and how relatively reasonable the menu was. It was a very upscale Chinese restaurant. We shared some starters and also some of Bill's Hot and Sour Soup. All of it was tasty. Then we shared our main dishes. The food was great and we finished just in time to go to the Palace Theater for Spamalot.

The play we saw is a musical based on the Monty Python movie "In Search of the Holy Grail" and also several jokes, gags and music from other movies. We laughed, clapped, and sang our way through the play. The spoof of Camelot was too funny! The lead actor, playing King Arthur, had been in The West Wing and in 24 TV series. He also had been in one Star Trek.  He made a funny King Arthur. Our picture looks like we have 4 bodies and only 3 heads. Jim is there behind Bill. So much for my late night photography .

We ended the evening singing along with the cast about keeping our mind and eye on the bright side of life....and that is just what we were doing.

When we got home the boys were still awake, but it wasn't long before we all headed for bed.