london

we had breakfast with a friend of p’s from school, katie, who has a 2 year old and a 6 month old. katie is a very fun, interesting and dynamic person. she is a beautiful, english woman who grew up in saudi arabia (her father being there for work). my favorite katie story is when, years ago, in london, her car was hit from behind. she got out and it was an arab guy who said there was no damage and he didn’t need to give her his number. she said, she wanted it anyway, in case there was some damage they could not see. he refused, but she insisted. finally, he started yelling and cursing at her in arabic, so she started yelling and cursing back at him in arabic. he was stunned. and then he not only wanted to give her his phone number, but he wanted HER number too. it was great to see her.

afterwards, we headed to see a play called “warhorse”. the tickets were a christmas present from p’s parents. it is a big hit in london apparently stephen spielberg has bought the rights and is going to make a movie of it. it is the story of a boy and horse that get pulled into world war 1. the amazing thing is that the horses in the play are life size puppets. they are minimal and you can see the puppeteers working them – two on the inside, one on the outside. they succeeded in giving the puppets perfect horse like movements and are totally convincing as characters. the story was a classic story in some ways, a child bonding with an animal, and their love carrying on through travails over time. it was really the presentation with the horses that made it beautiful and a marvel to watch, which makes me wonder how spielberg will translate it to film. after the play, we went up to p’s parent’s home outside of london.

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