A mad day trip to South Pacific

The day started at 7:30 when I headed to the Train Station to catch the 8:25 train from Newcastle. The Journey ran smoothly until before York when train came to a standstill due to a tresspasser. In York the noise levels went off when a lovely big group of guides heading to the Big Gig got onto the train. In Doncaster however football fans boarded and stood in the end of our carriage smoking inside the train and shouting and swearing whe children were on board grrr, surely they could wait until they got off the train at Peterborough. Whats worse was that when they got off the train at Peterborough (Peterborough were playing at home to Doncaster) the football fans scaled the fence and climbed over it and ran just before the police caught them as they hadnt paid for their train journey.

We arrived at Kings Cross only 10 minutes later than scheduled and 15 minutes later we arrived at Barbican, went to a cafe for lunch before heading to the stage door.

I arrived at the stage door at about 12:45 and there was some other fans waiting who had brought an Albert Square sign for Sam to sign

At about 13:30 Samantha Womack arrived with her husband as he came to help clear stuff out her dressing room as it was the last day that the show was going to be in the west end before the show moves on to tour. Samantha will be touring with the show until Christmas.

When Sam arrived she said she was running late for warm up and didn't have time to sign autographs and have photos with people as she was running late and needed to warm up, however she did promise she would be back outside as soon as she had warmed up, which was lovely of her. While we were waiting for Sam to come back out i watched her husband take in Sam's gandbag (pretty) and then carry out items from her dressing room and put them in the car (cushions and a little duvet cover).

15 minutes later Sam came back out and was more than happy to give me an autograph, we asked her how her broken toe was doing and she showed us the toe and said it was a little bit swollen. She was more than happy to allow me not one but 3 pictures to be taken with her (different cameras lol) ao kind of her.

One of the other fans asked Sam if she had any plans to return to Eastenders and she said No not for the time being but maybe in a few years.

I told Sam that I had travelled all the way from Newcastle for the day and she said thankyou :) I took a couple of other photos of Sam while she was talking to some other people.

I then went to take my seat in the Barbican a lovely venue and i loved the way each of the rows had seperate entrances with doors that closed once the performance had begun to form the walls of the auditorium. The seats were lovely and comfortable too.

The first half of the show was simply fantastic. I went into the show not knowing what the story was about as I had never seen it before. Prior to going I had only heard a couple of songs (Bali High, Happy Talk, Wash that Man right out of my hair) I love all these songs.

 By the interval I was so hot so we got an ice cream and headed outside to stretch my legs. Found some lovely fountains and even for 4pm it was so boiling outside. The fountains looked tempting to jump into lol and people were sunbathing beside them.

After the interval we headed back inside to enjoy the rest of the show, which in its entirity was fantastic and Samantha Womack was amazing and played her character so well brilliant dancing and vocals.

After we left the theatre i overheard some theatre goers saying how Sam didn't have a strong voice- completely disagree with this.

After a great day at the theatre we headed for Kings Cross, i was boiling by the time i got to the station so i just had to go and get an ice cold drink which did the trick ahhhh :)

Great Journey home with no delays.