Turning 21 and playing with swans and mummies
Yesterday I turned 21 :-) Good times. To start off the day, we went to Hyde Park and got tea at this place called the Orangery. It was absolutely adorable:
We got tea and croissants (or scones, for Greg and Tim, who weren't allowed to have actual breakfast menus) and it was so wonderful. Then we went to play with swans in the park because they are huge and somewhat scary:
Then we hung around for awhile, and I discovered that the USPS is evil and does not want me to get any birthday presents. Le sigh. We went out to dinner at a really authentic Italian restaurant in central London and then went to a club near our flat. Alice and I looked awesome (as usual) and the club/bar was really nice. By nice I mean classy. Oh, and by classy I mean $13 (6 pounds, 50 pence) per drink.
Today I finally got to check out the British Museum, once we found it, because London's streets shuffle much like the staircases in Harry Potter. It was amazing - we got to see the Rosetta Stone and mummies and x-rays of mummies. And I got to stare down a totem pole bird, which totally blinked first.
Then we went on a quest for Trafalgar Square, which I was promised was near the British Museum, but is, in fact, more than a mile away. Eventually, we found it, as well as the Thames, both of which look awesome at night.
Tomorrow it's back to actually doing work... internship, classes, internship, class, then it's Friday and off to Straford-upon-Avon!
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posted by Alyssa Gardina @ 9:28 PM
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Alyssa,
Oh, hello. I didn't see you there. I was just refreshing my understanding of British Architecture and its complete refurbishment to Rowlingism. You'd be amazed what interesting and useful fact you can find in your very own copy of 'Hogwarts: A History'. Such as, did you know that Admiral Nelson Q. Stair, the designer of the Hogwarts shifting staircases designed the lay out for the city of London? It's true. Of course, this was after the emotional breakdown he suffered during the blitz. His psychologist, Dr. Germain Schlicher, famously breached his doctor patient confidentiality when he told reporters that 'London is designed to get pedestrians lost to represent how lost Admiral Stair felt on the inside'. Stair's most ingenius and malevolent innovation was his spacial warping generator that he used that allowed walkers to travel in a circle while walking along a straight line.
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