We had another quiet night in our little hotel room.  We left the hotel for breakfast today.  When we got downstairs we found that the sun was shining and it was nice and warm.  This is our building.  Right near the sign for the Dog and Duck on the right? The building has a different colour just there and that moves to the left. These seem to be 2 different buildings. Our room we think backs onto the second floor center window that is on the left of the corner. Hence no windows 🙂

We head out to find “The Photographers Gallery”.  We find the gallery and low and behold it is free before noon.  We arrive at 11:55!! BONUS  🙂

There are a number of floors with an exhibition of of a New England photographer.  It was a rather depressing exhibition.  Lots of nude women and clothed men.  No one looked happy.  Lots of  snow and 1 nude dude!  Art is very subjective. I guess.

We left the gallery and heard some loud music and followed it to the source, which was Regent Street.  We did see some signs the past few days about NFL in London.  We now find out that there is a game at Wembly Stadium tomorrow between the Miami Dolphins and the New Orleans Saints.  This is area is a buzz of activity.  Many many people wearing NFL Jersey’s of lots of teams.  I spoke with one fellow wearing a Saints jersey.  He was definitely an American and I believe lots of the people we saw here were.  However, we overhead quite a few people wearing jersey’s with UK accents.  Lots of money being spent on NFL stuff.  One store had setup personalised embroidery for your purchases.  Here are some shots of the festivities.

Shortly after these photos were taken, we spotted 3 men, army we assume, packing machine guns.  A reminder that we are living in scary times.  This event and the game itself are obvious possible targets.  They are being very cautions, with good reason.

We decide at 2pm to check at the Prince Edward Theatre, which is where we saw Jersey Boys in 2011 and which is also a 5 minute walk from our hotel, to see if they have any tickets available for the 2:30 performance of Aladdin.  It was crowded outside but a gentleman radioed inside to see if there were tickets available.  Happily there were.  We were able to get 2 tickets in what they call “the Stalls”, we would call it the lower orchestra.  Not bad.  A bit more money than last night, but I am feeling a bit weak since I got this nice little gift from Stu (a cold), so a matinee will be great.

Our ticket

The theatre

The performance is amazing.  The seats were incredible.  The costume changes right before your eyes were UNBELIEVABLE.  Like how did they do that???  Great show, lots of children.   We followed the crowd to the exit and found ourselves on the street that our hotel is on, half a block away!!  Nice.

We walk around looking for dinner and are still amazed at the activity on the streets of Soho.  We take a few more photos before we pick and Italian restaurant for our dinner.  More Italian, it’s good, we like it!  🙂

This morning this place was covered with scaffolding. They were removing it while we were walking to breakfast. Very cool building

Another interesting building

This place, which is a 2 minute walk was recommended to me by a former co-worker. Won’t be making it this time. I am pooped 🙂

I posted this first photo the other day, but I stood on the bed to capture the second one which shows the room we have between the bed and the bathroom door.  Even still we are grateful for the soundproofing and darkness.  Definitely would stay here again.  We don’t spend much time here.  The location is AMAZING for what we want to do.  Mimi’s Soho gets top marks from us as long as we aren’t drinking in the bar!!  hahaha.

Wall to wall king size bed!! It is higher than normal, so that we can store our bags underneath.

The room between the bed and the bathroom door.

Flight home tomorrow at 2:10 pm.  Sadly Stu is missing the IHL Draft and I am missing the Run For the Cure.  We vow to plan better in the future!!