Alienarium 5 at the Serpentine in Kensington Park, London

 A sci-fi look at what could happen if Aliens fell in love with and married humans.  It was a little different but of course interesting.  It was showing at the Serpentine in Kensington Park, London.  The artist is Dominique Gonzalez.  Enjoy!

London - the Globe ... Shakespeare's Theatre

 One of the things we did in London that was truly enjoyable was to go watch a Shakespeare play at the Globe, London's famous Shakespeare theatre.  The theatre in an exact replica for the ones in Shakespeare's time.  It was so very interesting to see the architecture.  The play we saw was King Lear and it was fun and entertaining. Once the show started you weren't allowed to take any pictures so I just got a few shots of the theatre itself.  

 

London -

 London was truly not my favorite place.  I was slightly disappointed in it actually.  It could easily have been partly that the travel agency put us in a hotel that really was not walkable to anywhere.  I wanted to be near pubs and local favorites so we got a taste of London life.  Instead we were put in a hotel that was off behind several businesses and basically dead cornered.  Even our drivers could not really stop there.  They weren't allowed to linger longer than 5 minutes or they could be fined.  We arrived in London at 9am after an all night flight from New York.  Our hotel was not accommodating at all - we were told we could not go to a room until check in time at 4pm.  We needed showers and a nap but instead we got attitude.  Of all the places we visited the staff at this hotel was the rudest and actually our only rude hosts.  We just weren't happy here.  

We did get out to see Kensington Park, it was about 1.5 miles from our hotel and we enjoyed it but would have enjoyed it much more had we been clean and rested.  

Who doesn't want to ride a double decker bus??  Make sure everyone that enters has their own credit or debit card otherwise they can't ride.  Such a strange rule.  

This lake is at Kensington Park in London. 

Sculpture from a famous artist but I can't remember which one. 

An old building in Kensington Park. 

Fun Sculpture in Kensington Park 

This was the center of some sort of United Nations Fountain. 

All of these sculptures were a part of at sit at the 4 corners of the fountain 

Waterstones Book store in Piccadilly Circus.  Phoenix and I spent some time in there.  Huge bookstore and just really nice.  

Piccadilly Circus area 

Interesting candy at the candy store

More of Kensington Park

Interesting Bug scuptures

More of Kensington Park area

Another one of those interesting bug sculptures

My favorite meal while in London.  Lamb shank.  

NYC - The Met - 6-16-2022

 The Met (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) is one of the most amazing museums in America.  It's huge though and we only had a couple of hours to spend there so of course I headed to the Greek and Roman area first, I wanted to make sure I got to see that.  Below are headstones from the Roman times.  

I found a few statues that took pictures of as well as vases/urns and a few odds and ends.  I could get lost in this museum. 

Then we moved on to the Egyptian area :

Then on to the religious area: 

Gary and I were exhausted after 2 hours of exploring these areas of the museum and went outside to get a bottle of water and sit and rest a while.  He snapped a shot of me relaxing.  It was a gorgeous day.  

From here we went back to the hotel, got a bit of food and dressed to walk to the Broadway show.  It was a full day of activity and we enjoyed it immensely!