I will be horribly in love

Alright, now about Wednesday, another one of the most amazing days of my life.  Seems to be a frequent occurrence in my life these days.

It started at 5:50 in the morning when I woke up to help with breakfast crew.  You see, the bus was leaving at 7:00 to take us to the London temple, which is way outside of the normal part of London.  It's like out by Gatwick airport, which means it took us two hours to get there by bus.  (City traffic . . . you know.)  Yeah, so really early morning, but totally worth it.

Amy and I in front of the temple.  Or off to the side, whatever.

The temple was really beautiful.  It was precisely what I needed too.  It was peaceful, and there was quiet thinking time, and then we had time to walk around the grounds for a bit (I was like the second one in line somehow, so I finished before most of group, so we had lots of looking about time) and it was just wonderful.  I'm so glad that we went, because our London experience would've been so different without it.

Well, we got back really late, so we just went to Nando's for lunch and spent the remaining part of the afternoon doing homework and kitchen duty.  (Yeah, kitchen duty ends Thursday and I couldn't be more relieved.)  But AFTER dinner the most amazing thing ever happened.

To quote Sydnie, "Much Ado with Doctor Who!"  Yeah, we went and saw Much Ado not at the Globe (I already did that, remember?) but in a normal theater with David Tennant playing Benedict.  He plays Doctor Who in the popular British TV series, but for those of us who haven't watched that, he is Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter.  Not to mention incredibly attractive.

We were so happy and giddy.  And we had chocolate.

Besides the obvious attraction of the main actors (the lady who played Beatrice has also starred on Doctor Who and been in other films, but I'm not entirely sure which) the play was really good.  They decided to set the play in the 1970s - ish era (I think that's right.  when was it popular for little boys to wear really short shorts and for grown up boys to wear shorts that sometimes only went down to mid-thigh?) and it was basically in a beach house the whole time.  So that made for really interesting dynamics, because they were drinking and smoking and stuff like that as they lounged around on beach chairs.  And throwing techno dance parties.  They had a costume party, and there was totally a Darth Vadar and a Leah.  Yeah, Shakespeare and Star Wars have finally come together.  It was epic.  Worth watching the play just for that.  

I had lots of fun comparing the play to the one in the Globe and seeing how different lines were delivered and different scenes staged and so forth.  I really do love Shakespeare.  Basically it was awesome, and I won't bore you with any more of the details or my analysis of the play and the characters.  But seriously, so amazing.  Sigh.