On Friday I went to Singin' in the Rain in the West End.  I ended up on the front row which was pretty cool. Before the play started, everyone around me started putting on ponchos, which they had been given when they walked in. I went to get one for myself and the two little British ladies sitting next to me.  You have to imagine a nice theater with a full house and the entire front row wearing plastic ponchos. It was a great image. The play was fantastic. But the best part was the big number where the main character dances in the rain. He kept kicking water at the audience who shrieked and laughed. I've never seen people so excited to get water kicked at them. The ladies next to me were so grateful for their ponchos they fed me sweets for the whole play.

Pretty great advertizing. When you walk down the street, the bright colors really catch your eye.

I also went to Temple Church which was built around 1185 by the Knight Templar as their headquarters in London.  It's been a large part of London ever since. The Inner Temple, and Middle Temple are part of a large legal system where lawyers have been gathering for nearly 1000 years. It was also in both the book and movie The Da Vinci Code. If you watch the film you'll see Tom Hanks and Ian McKellen standing in the same place I was taking pictures. It was heavily bombed in WWII, but they've done a great job restoring it.

 The round part was designed after the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

Two of the effigies of Knights. They were badly damaged in the war, but casts had been made and placed in the Victoria Albert museum before the war, so they are on display by the originals.

The famous Templar symbol: two knight on horseback. It showed their vow of poverty on taking their vows in the order. Their original name was: The poor fellow soldiers of Christ and of Solomon's Temple. It was understandably shortened to the Knights Templar.