Our trip to London. . .

Yesterday, Jessica, Maurene and I headed to London for the annual outing at Royal Albert Hall. Each year in the days heading up to Christmas a series of concerts are given at the rather magnificent building across from Hyde Park. This year we went to concert entitled, Christmas Classics. We sat near the stage and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

The two soloists were John Owen-Jones, whose primary claim to fame is that he has performed the role of the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera over fourteen hundred times -making him the West End's longest serving Phantom; William Cracknell, an eleven year old was the other soloist, chosen because he is a 'boy soprano'. He appeared quite nervous before a packed hall, but his voice was magnificent. His usual choir was used in the for The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter films.

Whilst in London Jessica and Maurene got in a bit of shopping of Oxford and Regent Streets. Ron went to Trafalgar Square to see the Christmas Tree that is always donated by Oslo, Norway to the people of London for their support during World War II. On his way back to meet up with Maurene and Jessica he stopped in at Foyles (the world's largest bookshop) and had some hot chocolate with extra cream!

He was going to take in a film on Leicester Square but was discouraged by the £11.50 price (that's $23 approximately)!

The journey homeward wasn't particularly exhilarating. We drove home in a pea soup fog but safely arrived at 2.00 am.