09 August, 2014

And in the end ...

Here's what Spencer, Claire and Dad did, here's where Spencer, Claire and Dad went, in or around London, England, during the summer of 2014:

1. Hyde Park LDS chapel, Exhibition Road

2. Gregg's Bakery, Earl's Court

3. Lillywhite's, Picadilly Circus

4. Hamleys, Regent Street

5. Rocca restaurant, Old Brompton Road

6. 2014 World Cup, BBC 1 & ITV

7. Hyde Park

8. Harrods, Knightsbridge

9. The British Museum, Bloomsbury

10. That fountain in Russell Square

11. Waitrose

12. Little Waitrose

13. Scandinavian midsummer design exhibit, Habitat, King's Road, Chelsea

14. St. Luke's church, Chelsea

15. King Lear, A Small Family Business, Medea, on the Olivier Stage, National Theatre, Southbank

16. Queen Mary's Garden, Regent's Park

17. Evensong, Westminster Abbey

18. 200 East, 800 South, Springville, Utah, via skype; also, Caitlin and Colton's new home, in Columbia, MO, and Drew's flat in Provo, UT, and Sarah's duplex in Salt Lake City, UT

19. Platform 9 & 3/4, King's Cross Station, Camden

20. TKTS discout theatre ticket booth, Leicester Square

21. British Film Institute/National Film Theatre, Southbank.  We saw Spring in a Small Town, The Red Shoes, A Hard Day's Night, Top Hat, Once Upon a Time in China, Once Upon a Time in China, pt. 2, Hero, The Last Movie, The Lady from Shanghai, The Deer Hunter and the BFI shorts compilation, A Night in the Cinema in 1914.

22. The Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, several times

23. Sean O'Casey, The Silver Tassie, Lyttelton Stage, National Theatre, Southbank

24. The National Gallery, on Trafalgar Square, repeatedly

25. Charing Cross Library, Westminster

26. Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, Prince of Wales Theatre

27. Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

28. The British Library, Euston Road

29. Green Park

30. London Wetland Centre, Barnes/Hammersmith

31. Walking: Albert Memorial to St. Paul's Cathedral

32. La Brioche, Old Brompton Road

33. BYU London Centre, Palace Court

34. Hampton Court, Surrey

35. Marks & Spencer, Kensington High Street

36. Primark, Oxford Street

37. Scoops, gelato emporium, Old Brompton Road

38. The Valley of Astonishment, Young Vic Theatre

39. Blackwell's Books, Charing Cross Lane

40. Curzon Cinema, Soho

41. Cineworld Chelsea

42. Kew Gardens, Richmond

43. Portobello Road Market, Notting Hill

44. Abbey Road Studios, St. John's Wood

45. Titus Andronicus and Julius Caesar, at the Globe Theatre

46. Ham House, Richmond

47. Cycling with Moliére and The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet at the Ciné Lumière, South Kensington

48. Canada Monument, Green Park

49. Tate Britain, Pimlico

50. LDS Temple, Preston (Chorley), Lancashire

51. Borrans Park, Ambleside, Cumbria

52. Roman Fort, Ambleside

53. Dove Cottage (Wm. Wordsworth property), Grasmere, Cumbria

54. The village of Grasmere, Cumbria

55. Brantwood/Ruskin Gardens/Coniston Water, Cumbria

56. Windermere Lake Cruise, from Ambleside to Bowness, and back

57. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Zeffirellis (sic) Cinema Bar, Ambleside, Cumbria

58. Orrest Head, Windermere, Cumbria

59. Coventry Cathedral, Coventry, West Midlands/Warwickshire

60.  National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place

61. Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, the Strand

62. Margravine Cemetery, Hammersmith

63. St. James' Park, Westminster

64. The Churchill Museum

65. The Cabinet War Rooms

66. The 39 Steps, Criterion Theatre

67. Wellcome Collection, Euston

68. Matilda, Cambridge Theatre

69. William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow

70. Norte, the End of History, Finding Vivian Maier, Institute of Contemporary Arts

71. The Tate Modern, Bankside

72. Shoreham/River Darent, Kent

73. The XX Commonwealth Games, from Glasgow, on BBC 1

74. Matisse exhibit, Tate Modern

75. Evensong, St. Paul's Cathedral

76. First World War galleries, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road

77. Museum of Garden History, Lambeth Palace Road

78. Jonathan Dove's Gaia Theory (world premiere), Mozart's 25th piano concerto (feat. Ingrid Filter) and Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe (feat. the BBC Symphony Chorus), all by the BBC Symphony, conducted by Josep Pons, and all at the Royal Albert Hall

79. Tove Jansson exhibit, Institute of Contemporary Arts

80. Les Misérables, Queen's Theatre

81. Billy Elliot, Victoria Palace Theatre

82. Warhorse, New London Theatre

83. The State Rooms at Buckingham Palace, including the stupendous Picture Gallery, as well as an exhibit on Royal Childhood/s

84. Georgians exhibit, at the Queen's Gallery

85. The Royal Mews

86. Kenwood House, Hampstead

87. Hampstead Heath

88. Kyoto Garden, Holland Park

89. Holland Park Adventure Playground

90. The lurchingly double-decked, hybridized, diagonally windshielded #10 bus, from Kensington Gardens to King's Cross Station

91. Kensington Palace

92. Holocaust exhibition, Imperial War Museum

93. Selfridges, Oxford Street

94. Leighton House, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

95. Pick-up football game, on the site of a former allotment garden, immediately to the east of the Albert Memorial; featuring Thomas B., Claire, Dean and Spencer D., Daniel G., Kelyn I., Noah K., Jeffrey M., Kari M., Hunter P., Hannah R., Alexis R., Ethan S., Peter W., and that one weird little kid.

96. Sensational Butterflies habitat, Natural History Museum, South Kensington

97. Wong Kei Restaurant, Wardour Street, Soho

98. Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, WWI commemorative exhibit/installation at the Tower of London

99. Spectra, WWI commemorative exhibit/installation at Victoria Tower Gardens/Palace of Westminster (or, Parliament)

100. Barclays bicycle hire, around Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens

101. National Gallery, Sainsbury wing