Another beautiful day in another beautiful city

Tuesday was a day I thought I was going to stay in and do homework.  After asking Beth if we had to have our Holborn assignment done by the time we turned in our journals, she said that we should.  I remembered that I had to get my train tickets for Scotland from Kings Cross still,  so that is where I headed first.  After I got my train tickets I headed to Holborn.  Since it was such a nice day I didn't mind that I got lost, not that lost, but I did find my way after looking at the papers we were given.  The first stop was Sir John Soane's Museum, all I have to say is brilliant!  All right, not all I have to say, but his collection his magnificent.  There was one little nook that had a little memorial to Shakespeare, kind of cool.  The house from the outside doesn't seem that big, but once you go into the house and into all the different rooms it looks much bigger.  There are so many different rooms, one is the crypt.  It is Soane's room full of roman burial chambers in catacombs, it even has its own sarcophagus.  There was an exhibition on Mrs. Delaney, that was one to remember.  During her lifetime she cut out paper to make flowers.  That doesn't sound that interesting, but look her up, you will be amazed.  She also embroidered flowers as well, it was fantastic.  After the museum I went and saw the little sign in the park that is right in front of the building that housed the Canadians during the second World War.  Then off to the Lincolnsfield Inn Chapel.

 

Chapel

 

Flowers are blooming!

After walking a bit on the grounds I headed out to see the Royal Courts of Justice - the High Court building.

 

High Court building, only part of it

Next on our assignment was to look for the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Pub, I didn't exactly know what direction to go so I turned right onto Fleet Street, yes, the same street Sweeney Todd lived on.  I kept walking and still hadn't run into it, even though I just wanted to get to the Temples.  I kept walking down Fleet Street knowing I had not turned the right direction but I decided I would just come back, I still had a lot to do.  I ended up walking back to VH from where I was.  It was sunny and slightly warmer than usual outside, and I wanted to take advantage of it.  When I got back to VH I started my laundry, took a shower, so I could then wash my towels and finished some more laundry.  I started working on my presentation on rebranding Britain, it will be interesting to say the least.  The internet at VH has been acting up the past couple days, so it decided to be done for a while.  I decided to make my leftovers, meat and noodles, and come back just to see what was up.  When I was done eating it still wasn't done so I read some articles to help me out with the presentation.  Around 8pm or so I was feeling a little tired from reading, so I decided I would put my papers down and cuddle up with my new stuffed dog, George.  We had a nice little nap for a while.  I was just estimating on that time.  I woke up a little before 9, I thought then I should probably wake up and go get something to eat.  I made myself a roll with the rest of my peanut butter, the rest of the bread was moldy so I threw it away :( and I made some hot chocolate.  The hot chocolate is nothing like home, of course I did by the very cheap instant hot chocolate mix.  That's what I get for being cheap.  After getting my yummy night time snacks I headed back to my room to read some more, this time to not fall asleep in the process.  

I succeeded in not falling asleep and taking more notes for my presentation.  Also, the internet decided to be nice and worked until I headed to bed.  Is it bad that it's about the 3rd/4th week of class and I'm already dreading waking up for them all?  Oh well, they're really not that bad, but it's not entirely fun having a lot to do in one day.  Night time it was for me.  Sleeping for my long day.  Cheers

I may have to find a new ending word.  I've looked at other peoples blogs and they also end in "Cheers" at times.  Maybe I could move onto "Cheerio"?