Monday, my day of no class (again)

I got Monday morning in time for breakfast.  Of course by the time I got downstairs all the food was running low, but there were just enough frosted flakes for me.  No apple juice though, sad.  I then got ready for the day and headed out to the Museum of London.  It was the museum I'd been wanting to get too, and now I had a reason.  For one of our BES assignments we have to go there and then journal on it.  Parts of the museum was closed for refurbishment but the parts that were open were the London before London, the Roman period, Medieval period and the Great Fire.  Parts of the museum were really interesting, but I think the crowd did it in for me.  They ruined the whole experience.  There were so many kids around, but I think no matter when you go to that museum it will always be busy, maybe.  I started off walking through London before London, it was kind of interesting.  Finding out how some of them lived, they even had built a bridge across the Thames as well, actually the bridge went to some island that isn't here anymore.  There were a lot of artifacts and skulls in this section.  After that there were a couple things at the entrance I wanted to check out, since I didn't exactly know at the time where I would be exiting. 
In 2005 there were three underground bombings and a bus bombing, a believe it was three underground ones.  A total of about 51 (:s) people were killed.  In memory of them all they had a book published with a section for each of them.  In each section it talked about the person, when they were born where they lived, when they moved to London or got a job here that required them to take the tube.  After those biographies they had things written from families, talking about the person and how they'll be missed.  A very touching book.  I didn't get past maybe 10 people but still a great book.  And such a way to remember them.  For a bit there was a man who was standing behind me and I looked back at him a couple times because I didn't want to hog the book to myself but as soon as I turned the page to a new person he came up to me, took his headphones out and said I just turned the man he had wanted to see.  Most of the people who were killed were maybe in there upper 20s or early 30s, this man I believe was born in the early 1980s.  The man who was beside me said that they had worked together for a bit in a post office.  Just thinking about these people makes me sad to think about how they were killed just like that.  I read that one boy had just gotten a job at a newspaper and was called to do a big story in London that day, July 7th.  His mother or father said that the night before the planned out the route of the tube he would take, just to think if he had planned another route he would still be working for that newspaper.  After I looked at a couple more people in the book I decided I should let it be for someone else and headed on my way to the Roman times.  I only took one picture while I was int he museum...it was this one.

 

This was a model of a little Roman village.

So cute

In the Roman period of London, Caesar had taken over so it showed the buildings he had built, and also how some of the rooms in houses looked back then.  Mostly the more wealthy households, with tile mosaics and nice furniture.  After the Roman period it was off to the Medieval section.  I didn't stay too long there, though.  They had a model of the old St. Paul's Cathedral before it was destroyed in, I believe, 1637.  They had a video on the black plague, which I listened to for about 30 seconds before it was over.  Then off to the Great Fire of 1666 it was, now this place was ridiculously busy!  Most of the exhibit is one short hall way and to leave you have to go out the way you came in, so packed.  I saw a guy with a giant suitcase as well, he was about to go in when I was leaving.  I was wondering to myself how in the world he was going to go through all that.  I finally made my way back out to the entrance.  I stopped at the gift shop just to see if they would have anything I would like to buy, they didn't really so I headed back to VH.  For most of the afternoon I sat around in my room, on the internet.  I started to watch Percy Jackson, but it was taking too long to load so I went and warmed up my chicken and noodles from the night before.  I decided to eat in the dining room to give my movie more time to load.  I grabbed a bowl of my delicious ice cream and headed back up.  I played the movie and it went for a couple minutes before stopping to load again.  I started Valentine's Day as well, which was also on the site.  It was a little better than Percy Jackson, but it finally stopped about 30 minutes in.  

I finally got out at night and went to see the "sights".  Mostly the big ones like Big Ben, Westminster Abbey and the London Eye.  They are very pretty at night.

 

Westminster Abbey

 

Big Ben

 

Bridge by Parliament

 

London Eye & Aqarium

 

Oh look, a statue of Oliver Cromwell

Scum

 

Other part of Westminster Abbey

Beautiful sights, looking at the buildings up close as so fascinating.  All the intricacy of the buildings is genius.  So amazing to look at, that's pretty much all I can say.  I don't know how to explain how great it is to be up close to these works of art.  No one makes buildings like this anymore so it's rare to see a building with so much detail.

When I got back I wrote my blog for the day before and just hung around until my parents got on skype.  It's always nice to talk and catch up with them.  Watched the telly for a while and then headed off to bed.  Not too bad of a day, still rainy and chilly out.  I heard it is supposed to rain all week, most of it at least.  Tuesday is Pancake day too!  :)  Shrove Tuesday, before Ash Wednesday.  I'll explain later ;)  Cheers