Betwixt and Hampton Court Palace

This week hasn't been too eventful, but here is the update.

We worked all this week. Getting close to the festival start date, so things are getting a little busier around the Diorama. Wednesday, we met all of our flatmates and another friend Shivam for dinner at Tortilla, which is London's equivalent of Free Birds/Chipotle/Qdoba. It was delish. After that we headed to see a new musical at the theatre our roommate Sarah works at. It was called Betwixt and was really great. The theatre is small, just 120 seats, but many famous actors have gotten their start there (Alan Rickman!) and lots of their productions go on to the West End, Broadway, or to tour. Our tickets would normally have cost 20 quid, but Sarah got all 8 of us in for free! It was a fun night.

Today, Sally and I had the day off work. We woke up this morning and while we were getting ready the housekeepers came in. Shortly after two people from the Anglo American staff showed up, apparently to fire the housekeepers! It was really awkward, so we hurried on out of the flat to Waterloo station, where we bought tickets to Hampton Court Palace, which is in a town about 40 minutes south of London. Ascot is this weekend, and the station was overrun with men in top hats and women in fancy dresses and hats all waiting for their trains out to the races. It was fun to just people watch as we waited for the train. We got to Hampton Court Palace and spent about 3 hours touring the huge compound and gardens. It was really interesting and a good way to spend the day off. We headed back to London and stopped by Covent Garden for a little shopping before we headed back to the flat. Now we are just hanging out here with our flatmates, who are all so much fun.

Tomorrow, Mark and Lawry are taking Sally, Ayumi, and me to a gallery opening at Roche Court that they were invited to. It is about two hours away from here, and we are stopping at Stonehenge on the way home. Tomorrow is the summer solstice, and people come to worship there at sunset or something like that, I'm not sure what religion it is, but it I will have to google it before we go tomorrow. Hope all is well back in the US!!