Week 8 & 9: Catching Up

Friday-Saturday

15-23 November 2013

After a lovely trip to Cambridge I did some quintessential London-y type things. I went to the British Museum and saw mummies, the Rosetta Stone, and Greek Statues that made me feel like I was back in Rome.

Pretty creepy stuff on display at the ol' British Museum.

This is a pretty big tomb, but on average the rest were SO SMALL. I don't know how the Pyramids got built if all Egyptians were that tiny.

These statues are great examples of what the "wet drapery" technique looks like. That's probably the only thing I'll remember from my art history class.

The blurriest picture in existence of the Rosetta Stone. It is really, really cool to look at in person.

Then I took a Saturday with some friends to do a whirlwind sightseeing trip of some of the most touristy things London has to offer. We went to Abbey Road and took a Beatles picture, went to 221B Baker Street to see Sherlock Holmes's house and take a Sherlock picture, then across town to tour the home of the founder of the Methodist church (that was for school, not for fun), and ended our day taking pictures of one of the most famous bridges in the world.

Literally only one Tube stop away from where I lived!

Absolutely terrible attempt at recreating the picture, but the street is so busy that there was no time to retake it. But the bad pictures are always funnier than the good ones!

The nicest fake cop in the world! I'm Watson, and my friend Amanda was Sherlock.

The crew for the day! All friends and roommates of mine.

Inside of John Wesley's chapel.

Standing on London Bridge and taking pictures of Tower Bridge, AKA the most photographed bridge in the world.

Me at Tower Bridge.

Beautiful London from the view of Tower Bridge.

St. Paul's Dome at night.

This is the Millennial Bridge, which gets destroyed in the opening sequence of the 6th Harry Potter movie. The best part about it is the view you get of St. Paul's.

Millennial Bridge is kind of cool, but hard to see the details of it at night. 

The next week I saw Lion King (great seats, not a great performance), went to several more museums, took a picture on a million pound (as in pound the currency) staircase, and went to my first Football match. Never in my life have I been surrounded by so many men and the overpowering stench of beer. It was really fun to watch though! Shout out to my dad and little brother for all the soccer watching they do at home. Without that I would've had no idea or appreciation for what was going on. 

Christmas Decorations in my favorite place, Covent Garden!

Lego Snow Globe of London.

Lego Big Ben, Lego Gherkin.

Covent Garden Christmas is the best kind of Christmas. 

Lion King for cheap seats at the Lyceum Theater.

Cool trees on the way to the Tate Britain.

This is us on the newly unveiled staircase at the Tate Britain. Apparently it cost millions of pounds to build, but it was severely average as far as staircases go. I'm the very pale face with a pink sweater near the back.

Even though London is known for being dreary, I saw a lot of  beautiful sunny days like this one. This is at Trafalgar Square, which is right next to my least favorite museum of all time, The National Gallery.

My view walking to the soccer game. I was hopelessly lost and alone, but at least it was pretty out!

Don't know who I was cheering for, but I think they won!

That night I made the trek back from the pitch to the hotel one block from my apartment to see my family for the first time in three months!