Wednesday, January 28, 2009

What's One of These Worth?

While Laura and the younger girls headed to the Children's Zoo, Olivia and Scott headed out to attend an organ concert at the The Temple, one of London's oldest churches. Built by the Knights Templars (made famous in the DaVinci Code), it has been around since the 1200s. Olivia has been asking to see a pipe organ in action since we heard one at Westminster Cathedral on Sunday. Events conspired against us, however. The train was delayed and the area where the Temple is located proved to be a medieval warren of winding streets, none of which seemed to lead to our destination. We arrived 20 minutes late to hear the organ blaring handsomely inside with the doors locked tight against late entrants. We listened from the outside for a while and consoled ourselves with a trip to Harrods where we enjoyed gelatto at the ice cream parlour and a visit to the pet store upstairs with its £ 1700 Scotty puppies, £ 900 kittens and £55 rabbits. Amazingly, people actually buy these pets at these prices.

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