Mood:
party time!Now Playing: "Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious"
Today, I decided to start sending emails to let everyone know what's been happening on our trip. The list includes my coworkers, family and a few friends.
Today was an even busier day! We woke up and visited the world's most incredible museum, The British Museum. I felt absolutely nerdy, but I was in complete heaven there. There are 5 or 6 floors of ancient artifacts and art, making it the most prestigious museum in the world. We saw the Elgin Marbles, Rosetta Stone, several Roman and Greek busts of emperors, pottery, Japanese art and statues, pieces of the Parthenon, mummies and tools. I can't even describe how breathtaking it was to be in the midst of pieces that were 6,000+ years. I most enjoyed the Greek artifacts, as you could have probably guessed. I took over 50 pictures in the museum and will share with you all. After that, we searched for a place to eat with little luck. We ended up in the trendy district of Soho and ate at another Italian restaurant... run by real, live ITALIANS. A special thing about London is that it is quite possibly the most international city in the world. With its close proximity to mainland Europe and its previous ruling of several Asian and African nations, the people are even more diverse than in New York. After lunch, Catherine went shopping at various English stores and I spent the afternoon at Buckingham Palace and the Queen's Galary. It is even more spectacular in person. Across from Buckingham Palace is St. James's Park, which is set around a beautiful lake full of ducks. Squirrels and ducks approach humans. I believe that even the birds were rather British as they stood with more grace and with their necks stretched out in the most prim and proper manner. We returned to Kat and Gary's to get dressed for a play in Soho at Prince Edward Theatre. I wanted to see Spam-a-Lot, but we ended up going to see Mary Poppins. On the way, we stopped at the Cedar Tree, a pub in Putney. We ate and drank and flirted with the bar tender, who ended up asking me out. Hilarious because he kept making me drink all of these authentic English beers. Guiness is definitely not my "cup of tea," if you will. We realized that we had talked a bit longer than anticipated and jetted back to the Tube station. I was a bit dressed up and had to literally run down the wet, dark streets of Soho, begging for directions to Prince Edward. Some man told us he would bring us for 5 pounds. This meant he was going to bring us on his bicycle about 5 minutes away. We politely decline and RAN even more, even past the theatre where Spam-a-Lot was playing. Finally, we arrived. We were 5 minutes late, so we had to wait with the ushers in this underground room so we could be escorted at the next scene. Mary Poppins was pretty incredible. British theatre is much better than American theatre, I must say. The cast was lovely and the production was fantastic. We returned home, only to find a hilarious newspaper whose headline was "CAN SEX SAVE THE PLANET?" The article detailed a group of people who had sex in all of London's parks and people would pay them. They would use the money to plant trees. It came with pictures, too. We weren't sure if it was porn or actual news. We took pictures on the subway and got lost on the way home... as usual. We ended up at home around 11:30 and Kat and Gary were waiting for us. We felt so horrible to have kept them up, but they wanted to chat, so we had tea with them and hit the sack.