Treat number 15 -A
family trip to see Les Miserables
The weekend after my birthday
brought my first really big treat which was a weekend in London with a trip to
see Les Miserables. We drove to our
hotel in London Docklandby s as soon as the children got home from school on
Friday stopping for dinner with my parents on the way down! We had a lovely large family room and chocolate
chip cookies to welcome us.
We started Saturday morning with
a visit to the closest parkrun – Southwark, which was full of marathon runners
and their families and had a carnival atmosphere. Eddie paced me round and I managed a pb which
was a fantastic start to the weekend and hopefully a sign of things to come.
We returned to the hotel all
hungry for a huge breakfast to keep us going through the day and had just sat
down when the fire alarm started ringing and stomachs rumbling we were
evacuated to the park opposite the hotel!
Luckily it was a false alarm and before too long we were fed, showered
and ready to make our way to the Queen’s Theatre. Les Miserables is one of my favourite musicals
and I was not only really excited to see it in the West End but also wanted Phil
and the Children to experience it too to see why I love it so much. The show didn’t disappoint and we all laughed
out loud at the antics of Madame and Monsieur Thenardier and all shed a tear as
different characters met their maker.
Les Miserables took us all on an
emotional journey and I don’t have the words to express how much we enjoyed it
but I would recommend it to you all!
The weekend concluded with Phil
running the London Marathon and Team Whiting supporting him and all the other
runners we knew. Watching the marathon
led to mixed emotions as it was a year ago that I ran it and would have loved
to have been there pounding the streets with the thousands of other
runners. The excitement of supporting a
marathon did give me the boost I needed to focus on my training and I enjoyed
my run this morning with an extra spring in my step!
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