We had Sister Kae and Sister Hess from the mission office join us on Saturday to explore Brighton. Sister Hess had a lovely black eye from a fall earlier in the week.
The first stop for visitors always seems to be the pier.
We pass by the Royal Pavilion several times a week but this was our first time inside. It was absolutely beautiful. This was the seaside pleasure palace of King George IV. “It is built in the Indo-Saracenic style prevalent in India for most of the 19th century, with the most extravagant chinoiserie interiors ever executed in the British Isles.” from Wikipedia
The banquet hall was my favorite room. It has an awesome dragon that holds the chandelier in his claws.
In the royal kitchen they had put a plastic rat on one of the shelves. I'll bet they did have problems with critters.
After a delicious lunch of fish and chips at the Harvester we caught a bus heading east along the seafront and claimed the coveted front seats on top.
We got off at Saltdean oval to walk down to where we had our Christmas photo taken in front of the chalk cliffs.
The tide was way out and Elder Parrett climbed down onto the rocks and on down to the tide pools. He was out of sight and we missed the action. But as he returned he came up a concrete ramp. At the high tide mark there is a lot of green slime which was his undoing. He slipped and slid for a while. Then he couldn’t get up without sliding more, but finally came up to where we were waiting.
His right side was wet with plenty of green slime. Sister Hess and I took his two hankies and cleaned off what we could while Sister Kae took pictures. It was his favorite suit too. By the end of the day he was mostly dried out.
As we walked back up to the highway Sister Kae took some of the loose chalk and wrote kilroy was here on the concrete.
The first bus along was headed to Peacehaven which was about as far east as we wanted to go anyway. We got the front seats on top again. We’ve actually ridden that route before and knew that the end of the line was by a grocery store but that the bus would go on to Brighton. We waited for the bus driver to smoke his cigarette and start the bus again. We didn’t get suspicious when he didn’t make any stops, we just enjoyed the scenery and sunshine. But when he turned into the bus garage we knew something wasn’t right. We quickly climbed down the stairs; the driver was quite surprised to see us. He said the end of the line was Peacehaven. So all that time the bus would have had the sign saying “Not in Service” on the front, but we didn’t know it. We’re still chuckling about it.
To finish off our day we went to the musical, “Dreamboats and Petticoats.” It features the music of our teenage years so we enjoyed it greatly.
The Theatre Royal Brighton first opened its doors to the public on Saturday June 27 1807 with a performance of Hamlet
This important grade II listed building is one of the oldest working theatres in the country with an exquisite example of a regency auditorium
We were intrigued with the two female saxophone players. They even danced while playing.
