Thursday, November 25, 2004

One more day

Well today was fun because I got to go the art muesams in the morning. Lindsay is not a big fan of them so she went and got her nails done instead. I went to the British Muesame first because it is only a 3 minute walk from our hostel. I saw the Parthenon Marbles like I wanted, and also a lot of famous greek scultpure (although I liked the Louvre collection more). After that I took the tube to the National Gallery. It has an amazing collection! Everywhere I turned I saw paintings by Leonardo Da Vinci, Michealangelo, Degas, Suerat, and Monet, to name a few. I went and saw their special Raphael exhibit. It had over 80 of his paintings and sketches. Unfourtantely, I wasn't aloud to take any pictures in the National Gallery, so I just bought some postcards of my favorite parks.

In the afternoon Lindsay and I went to the Tower of London again; this time when it was open. The history of the building goes back over 600 years, and tons of famous people were kept there and then beheaded, like Sir Thomas More and Anne Boylyn.

Now I'm just killing time and waiting for 3 pound dinner they serve here (cheapest food we can get). I'm not sure how good it will be, but considering how hungry I am I really don't think it will matter what it tastes like!

Tommorow we're hoping to see Buckinham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Saint Paul's Cathedral, and go to Cambridge Market.

On a random note, Lindsay and I are having serious trouble figuring out how the heck you walk on the sidewalks here. We've got the one leg in front of the other part, but everyone keeps running right into us (or maybe vice versa). We thought maybe because they drive on the opposite side of the road, maybe they all walked on the opposite side of the side walk as well? If anyone has an answer to our pecuilar problem, we'd be really grateful (and maybe even bring you back a souvenir).

I'm off to eat. Adios!