Happy New Year from London!

Should old acquaintance be forgot, at least I'll have these blog posts to remember where I've been.

Upon our return to London*, we saw a lot and we ate a lot.

We saw lots more shows, including Sir Ian McKellen's one man show about his life and growing up in the British theatre world. The second act started with him visiting the audience and then grilling the audience on every play Shakespeare wrote. He then either told a story about being in or seeing that play and/or did a monologue from it. It was absurdly impressive.

We saw Hamilton. Again.** From the second row. It was incredible. We laughed, we cried, we watched the amazing ensemble actors sweat, we watched the leads spit and practically step on the conductor's head. Come to London, guys, you can get great tickets easily for way cheaper than America.*** Also, they serve ice cream at intermission. You can see Dad and AT posing with the tickets but me posing with our ice cream voucher. London Theatre is way better than American Theatre for this exact reason.

We saw Tina, the Tina Turner Musical. They have signs everywhere telling you to contain your joy until the sing/dance along at the end.

Dad and I saw Waitress and it was as lovely as ever and I took no pictures.

We saw lots of art, specifically at Tate Modern and the National Portrait Gallery, my two fave faves.

 We ate a lot. Like, a lot a lot and it was all delicious. I didn't take pictures of most of it because I'm not that person.**** But here's a little taste of delicious Indian food from Kutir, a truly beautiful restaurant.

We found an actual location for my favorite store that I thought was only a catalog!

We posed.

And since it's the end of a year and everyone's doing it. . .

In 2019, I went to twelve new countries*****, including Spitsbergen at the very top of the globe and South Africa at the very bottom of the globe.

Dad got his 100th country in Greece this September!

In this decade I have been to a seemingly impossible 113 new countries. This picture is from Peru in 2012, AKA as far back as the photos on this computer go without me putting in any real effort.******

Next year will include the Seychelles (dream beach trip), the 2020 Olympics in Japan (dream of a lifetime trip), and certainly other places (dreams yet to come).

Happy New Year to you all, dear readers!******* Safe travels!
-KT

*World's greatest city
**NYC 2017

***Airfare not included
****#tokyo2020
*****TCC countries, obviously
******Also a sign that I got this computer when I started my doctorate and, oh yeah, that's a thing I did this decade and will be the greatest thing I ever do ever.
*******Hi, Dad and Tim and Patrice and Laura(s)!