Theatre, Books, statues, and Goths

So first, I must tell the tale of seeing two of the greatest actors in our time, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen acting in proximity, and NOT playing Xavier and Magneto was quite a treat! I've never seen Waiting for Godot performed, and I was very much pleased with it. Perhaps the best part was when Stewart and McKellen were taking their bows, they did a little dance routine together, then walked off stage opposite each other, then threw their hats onto the empty stage! So much fun! Picadilly Circus was the stop that we used to get to the theatre, its supposed to be London's version of Time Square. I've never been to Time Square, but I found it a little underwhelming. The need more lights. :) So today we started our adventures at the British Museum. Its nestled inconveniently equal-distant from two underground stations, so we had to hike a bit no matter what. We got a little lost, but I found a comic book store and picked up a bit of reading material for later. When we finally found the museum, it was quite an entrance. that ceiling stretches around the entire great hall entrance. I'm not sure whats in them middle, because we weren't planning on staying very long.

This is what brought us to the museum. A big piece of rock. You might know it by its name, the Rosetta Stone.

Apparently in Europe, ancient artifacts are common place enough that they turn them into millstones! Yikes!

Lely's Venus. I really liked this statue. I liked it so much that I made a photosynth of it. It's not as good as the vatican ball photosynth, but you get a good idea of it, and you can zoom in and out in some places. :) Try it out!

When I think of slingshots, I always think of tiny little pebbles. these are the rocks that they use in slings. Yeah... Those are about the size a scoop of ice cream. Ow. We saw Parthenon Friezes, the ones that Greece wants back and the British Museum kinda wants to keep. I picked up a flint axe that was 350 thousand years old.... and alarms didn't go off! They had these hands on stations with museum staff there to help show them off. After a sandwich at the Pret we were off to our next stop

What do you do at King's Cross station? Well duh! You go to Platform 9 3/4 to visit Hogwarts!

Unfortunately, when we arrived, the Hogwarts Express wasn't taking people to Hogwarts. Why? School is out for summer holiday! The Hogwarts Express doesn't start up until August.

From there we walked a short block to the British Library to see things like Shakespere's own handwriting on paper, The Magna Carta, Da Vinci's sketchbook, a guttenberg Bible, one of the oldest known copies of the Qu'ran, y'know the kind of stuff that is just lying around in European's attics. Unfortunately there is no photography of any kind allowed inside the exhibition halls, so you'll have to settle for a link.

Then we went to the Camden Town market where we got to see the alternative world of London. It was a lot of fun seeing goths, punks, and such walking around. The clothes they had were really great there! I'm not sure why I didn't snap many pictures there, I didn't snap any. I think I was just overwhelmed with all the stores and nooks and crannies and people around me.

We stayed there pretty much until things started closing, which was around 7pm. Then made our way back to the hotel. We have to get up early tomorrow for our trip to Stonehenge, so we're not going to push ourselves too much. We're both pretty tired from our european adventure in general, and even though we've got a few more days to go, we're both rather homesick. We miss our kitties.