Saturday, May 28, 2011

Shakespeare~

What a day. What a day! Today was a complete whirlwind of London. So we got up to got at 9:30 then headed off to the V&A (the Victoria and Albert museum). It was like a history museum. Tons of british artifacts all the way back from the 1500's till the 20th century. There were so many amazing things to see, and after learning about them in school made it even better to see them in real life. Especially the chaise lounge by mies van de rohe, the Mackmurdo chair, the chippendale chair, and the artichoke lamp. Awesome! Then on our way back to our flat, Mary, Stacie, and I stopped and the LDS church. It took us forever to find a member, but we finally found like a mission president from Arizona and we asked him what time sacrament was. So tomorrow we are going to Stake Conference at 10:00 in London, England. Kinda fun :)
Then we headed back to the flat and got lunch. Then we were off again! We took the tube to the city center of London. We walked for hours. We got to see the humongous Tower bridge and the London bridge. Plus we could see London city hall! It is very modern and awesome. (google it!!!) Then we headed off to Tate museum of modern art. It was (to say in the nicest way) interesting. I'm not big on art museums anyways and modern art just gets incredibly weird. It just looks like crazy people drew up these things! Terrifying pictures, naked crazy people at nudist camps, violence. JUST WEIRDNESS! I didn't even know if I should be allowed to see some of those things. Ya I wouldn't recommend that one. But to make up for it we went to a Greek restaurant. It was so good and I tried so many new things. I found that I like Hummus with flat bread. Pretty good!
Then our random adventure was that we went to see a professional Shakespeare play in the Globe! It was incredible and the play is so much easier to understand than just reading it. We saw All is well that ends well. It was hilarious! We got tickets at the last minute so there was only standing left, but it was only 5 pounds and we got to be right at the front! I really loved it. Then we walked back to the Tube and then found our way home. We got home at 11:30 so we had been walking for over 12 hours! My feet hate me. And so does my back from my bag. I think I will need surgery after these 6 weeks! Its only been 3 days and I'm already broken. Oh goodness!
Chihuly Glass Sculpture in the V&A. Fantastic!
Hanging, flattened instruments in the V&A.
Artichoke Lamp in the V&A.
LDS church
Tower Bridge
Shakespeare's Globe where I saw the play.

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