London 2009 - Day 2
We started the day with breakfast at a little neighborhood boulingerie on King’s Road-coffee and ham and cheese croissants. We then made our way to the tube to Waterloo Pier to buy tickets to a riverboat cruise down the Thames to Greenwich.
The weather was picture perfect, partly sunny and a cool breeze. The tour guide gave us the history of London on The Thames as we motored slowly down the river. 
I liked the Mayflower Pub which commemorates the place where the Mayflower ship launched for America. We de-boated in Greenwich about lunch time. We found a local pub and had fish & chips and a cold lager. (They actually serve it cold now.)
After lunch we took the boat back and got off at the Tower of London stop. 
We had done the Tower tourist stuff on our first trip to London years ago, so we just took a couple of photos and tubed back to Sloane Square. We stopped at a market and bought food for the flat - eggs and streaky bacon, beer and wine. All of the essentials. 
We also stopped in a stationary store and bought a card to write a message to Stacey Kent and Jim Tomlinson. She is a great jazz singer and he is a sax and flute player and their music is what caused us to make this particular trip. We’ll see them perform tonight in celebration of our 40th wedding anniversary. We wrote a note in the card saying how happy we were to be able to be here in London seeing them on our special occasion, and we asked them to play our song, “Never Let Me Go.”
We took the tube one full hour to Hornschurch and then walked another 25 minutes to the Queen’s Theatre. We were pretty glowing by the time we arrived, but boy was it worth it! Stacey and Jim and group were truly awesome! They were more improvisational than the last time we saw them in the States. And the highlight of the evening was when Stacey made a beautiful tribute to us and sang our song. We both sat with tears running down our faces. What a miraculous evening. We made the tube trip back in a kind of romantic haze.
Oh, by the way, we heard on our walk home from the tube station that Michael Jackson has died.
