Food and Frolicking

This week has been Amazing. I never want to leave London. On Wednesday we went to Harrods and had a glitter donut (real glitter), Marble Arch, Hyde Park, and Tate Britain art museum. On Thursday we went out to Kew gardens. Kew gardens is very large and boasts the largest seed collection in the world. It has many Victorian glass houses full of all sorts of cool plants. It also is the location of kew palace where they kept crazy king George. After I got back I went to the play Love, love, love. There were three actors that I recognized from movies I'd seen. Ben Miles from Forsyte Saga; Victoria Hamilton from Victoria and Albert, Mansfeild park, and Lark Rise to Candleford; and Claire Foy the girl who plays the new Little Dorrit. Friday we went to Oxford and had a tour of the castle and dungeons there. Saturday we went to Portobello road and I coveted all the amazing antiques, then I went to Kensington Palace, and ate fish and chips. Today I went to church then headed over to St. Paul's to listen to the Evensong and Sermon. St. Paul's is the second biggest cathedral in England. And the location has been a place of Christian worship since 604 AD. I had tea across the road and was able to sit in the window seat that faced the cathedral. It was beautiful. The choir sang beautifully it was half men and half little boys who sang the beautiful high notes which echoed throughout the cathedral long after they had stopped singing. So photos are harder to organize on an iPad so they are randomly placed. Also I've put a lot more pictures on Facebook because it is easier to post there for a lot of photos.

Busy days

Today was very busy. We went to two different museums. The first one was the John Soane museum. John Soane was a very famous architect and collector of books, antiques and artifacts. He would collect these things for his students to have to study. He also had in his house/museum around 30,000 paintings and sketches of his building plans and also famous political paintings from the Rake's progress.there were numerous panels within panels of paintings as you can kind of see in the picture of the guy opening one of them.
Next we went to the British Museum which was huge! It went on forever. The coolest things we saw there was the Rosetta stone, the Elgin marbles, mummies, and the chess set that inspired the chess set in Harry potter.
I can't really organize the photos so...1.Soane book collection 2.chess set 3.British museum 4. Soane antique collection 5.sarcophagus 6. Soanes antiques 7-8. Elgin marble 9. Mummies 10. Painting panels 11.Rosetta stone 12. Elgin marble

Arrival

Well I've made it safely here. And I've decided to do mini blogs throughout my stay. Here are pictures of my room. It's quaint, charming and on the third floor. Did you know that elevators don't really play a role in English buildings? I didn't until I had to lug my suitcase up a few flights of stairs.