They tried to sneak off without me but I sat in Maria’s handbag so they couldn’t leave without me noticing. The drive down in John’s new car was nice and smooth and at least we’re staying at a decent hotel. The Park Lane Hilton, I gather John got a great deal on something called Lastminute.com.
The room is nice, pretty big for London. We got here mid afternoon and we had tickets for the theatre this evening, so we thought we’d grab a bite to eat before hand.
There is a great selection of restaurants and bars in the hotel. We decided to go for something different and went down to Trader Vic’s in the basement. A sort of Polynesian bar/restaurant.
Their cocktails are fantastic and certainly pack a punch. (Maria said she wouldn’t let me have any more if I didn’t stop making bad puns.
We also had a quick mixed platter with prawns, ribs, pork and crab, and a couple of nice dips. Just enough to keep us going.
We grabbed a cab to the theatre. I would have though Maria would have learned her lesson from the time John took us to totally the wrong place in Budapest,but she let him tell the cab driver which theatre to take us to. By the time Maria pointed out we were outside Mama Mia but had tickets for Jersey Boys, the cab had gone. So we had to traipse across half of London, well half of Soho anyway. Mind you it did a lot for my education, the shop called Trashy Underwear was probably the least eye popping.
Still every cloud has a silver lining, we passed a shop with some lovely chairs, sofas and chaise lounges in the window. And they were in MY SIZE. John bought an easy chair.
Maria is now claiming it’s for a girl bear or a doll! As if! This discussion is not yet over!
Any way the show was FANTASTIC, I didn’t know Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons were responsible for so many hits. Maria had to have the CD, mind you I won’t mind listening to it on the way home.
We got back to the hotel pretty pretty late, so since we want to be up early for Chelsea we’ve ordered room service and I’m just writting this while we wait.
Looking forward to tomorrow, we’ve been watching it on telly and it looks great.
Silly me, I completly forgot about Chealsea. Don’t listen to them Wills, if you want the chair stand up for yourself!