Florida Coalcracker Chronicles: Monday Shopping In London - We Ran Into Rod Stewart

Monday, November 06, 2017

Monday Shopping In London - We Ran Into Rod Stewart - And He Sang For Us

Lulu got the best video of Rod Stewart - Handbags and Gladrags.

Lulu loves the Hamley Toy Store
Steiff Bear - 3000 pounds

What a beautiful Monday in London. The sun was high in the sky as we left to go shopping - it ended up at 50 degrees. We took the Tube from the apartment to Oxford Circus. The first stop was to see the new iPhone X at the Apple Store on Regents street. then we walked to Carnaby Street and bought sim cards for our iPhones.

We topped up our old transportation cards with 30 pounds each. They had 7 pounds on them from last summer. That should last us quite a long time.

We went to an EE Cellphone Store. We got a very nice deal on cards - much less than back at home. In Florida ATT charges us $128 a month for two iPhones with 16 GB of data. Over here we got 20 GB of data for our two iPhones for 30 pounds total - about $40. We paid much less for much more service. These cards will work all over Europe.

Then we shopped at the London Liberty Store and the John Lewis Store. We also had lunch. We walked to Chinatown to get my favorite yellow custard tarts and buns.

It was time to go back to the apartment - Lulu had dinner in a crock pot back home. I asked Lulu if she wanted to take a bus or subway home. She made a very good choice picking the subway. Our iPhone said the closet stop was Picadilly Circus - so we walked there.

I heard a street musician singing Bob Dylan's - Times They Are A Changing. We walked over to listen. The kids was very good. All of a sudden he said he was going to play a Rod Stewart song. All of a sudden - the real Rod Stewart popped up and sang the song. It was incredible - we were just 6 feet from him. The crowd behaved an the finished the whole song.