Quick Update...Exciting News!

Hey, folks! Just a few updates before we head to Scotland on this brisk English morning. The coach is already two hours late, and we're getting a little anxious waiting on the drive. However, this has turned out to be a wonderful thing...because I just got tickets to see Martin Freeman star as Richard III! I'm about to explode from

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/10949592/Martin-Freeman-fans-ruin-Richard-III.html

excitement right now! Sarah and I are going together next week, and I assure you that you can expect a thorough review afterward. I have not bee this pumped about something for a while. 

He's received fantastic reviews and a standing ovation every night. There was a bit of a controversy about his casting - whiny hoity-toity people were complaining about Freeman's younger fans cheering too much during the show. Since that "story" broke, though, the director Jamie Lloyd has come forward to denounce that criticism and say that Freeman has been so good everyone was cheering at the end, and not just young people. My friends saw the production yesterday and claimed it was hands-down the best theater experience of their lives. Sarah, who is seeing it again with me, said she can't even articulate how much she loved it. I'm pretty excited!

I'll be composing drafts of blog posts in my notebook while on the bus and will update them later tonight. Keep your eyes open for posts about Stonehenge, Dover castle, the British Library, and Kew Gardens, to name a few. Thanks for reading, y'all!

Love,
Laura