Crimson Thunder
As we woke up in the morning, our first proper day together in London began! While walking through Shaftesbury Avenue, Sophie had once again talked to us about how much she would have wanted to see the Frozen West End Musical, so up we went, headed over to the theater streets and bought ourselves tickets for the show in the evening.
While waiting for the show to begin we decided to do a little of a combined shopping and sightseeing tours. As most of you know, I do frequent London at least once or twice a year, but it had been a long ten years since Sophie last set her feet on British soil, and she could not for the life of her remember what she had seen or not. So off we went!
We started our first trip to what probably is a must do for anyone doing London for the first time – Buckingham Palace. With a bit of disappointment, as the King was not in the country right now. Honestly, I still don’t feel accostumed to say there is a KING of England? Oh well.
We took a stroll through the park as we went off to get towards Big Ben and the Southbank – which is one of my favorite locations ever. Ironically, my favorite location in Brisbane is ALSO the southbank – who could have thought?
When arriving at Big Ben, we found ourselves caught up in the middle of a pro-Palestinian demonstration, which all of us loved and supported. It was incredibly beautiful to see people, not just in London but all around the world, getting up behind Palestine. Anywho – we went to visit the Big Ben and then made our way over to the Southbank, London Eye and a very cute bookshop! I guess it is a chain shop in the UK, but I did find some interesting books that I planned to come back for another day.
We headed over to an amazing pizza place close to Waterloo station for some dinner before we went back towards the theatres and attended our very first West End musical! We had gotten some really good seats if you ask me – surely, they were a bit away but it gave us a perfect view over the entire stage.
The musical itself was very good! It was a bit of a mixture between Frozen and Frozen 2 which had me raise my eyebrow a bit due to small changes to the plot, but nothing major! The actresses and actors were amazing and it was an incredible show to watch! I would highly recommend people seeing it.
Once it was over we headed back to our hotel to have an early night. Our most jampacked day was awaiting us the next day – and we could not be more excited.
// Sara
Sara Hammerzmith 
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