[Day 85] Museums

I have some catching up to do! On Sunday Kate and I woke up and went to Camden around 11:30 to buy some last minute souvenirs and say bye to Camden. It's one of my favorite places around London. I love all of the people there and the fact that it has so many different things, both food and shopping. I had a delicious chocolate and caramel churro for lunch. We stopped in almost every store on Camden High St and bought souvenirs, we even got our Big Ben clocks. We each had like 5 bags full of stuff and then remembered that we had to carry it all to the museums that we were planning on going to.

The Camden tube station was closed so we walked to Morning Crescent and took it to South Kensington, where we went to the Natural History Museum. The NHM is two blocks away from where I have my Nova class but I'm always too busy on Mondays to go before class. There was an adorable ice skating rink outside and everything was lit up.

The inside of the building was just as gorgeous as the outside. When we went in, we went straight to the mammals and dinosaurs. It was a great idea because they had an awesome dinosaur exhibit with lots of bones and a big huge t rex replica at the end that made noise and everything.

After the dinosaur exhibit we went to the mammals. There was so much stuff, that museum must have been huge. We saw all kinds of animals (including a giraffe!) and sea creatures. After that we left that museum and went next door to the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Kate and I thought that museum was going to be awesome and going to be about royalty, but it wasn't. It was so weird, we still have no idea what the point of it was. There were different rooms based on countries and each room just had piles of statues inside. It looked like a garage that someone just put all their extra statues in. I'm not really certain. We played in the gift shop for a while, which was way more interesting that the museum, and took the tube home.

On Monday I had history and my Nova class, Tuesday I went to Nando's for lunch yayyy and I had Poetry and Lit in Time. On Tuesday I tried to go to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel to see the Elephant Man because Erin said that he was there. We ended up leaving late and I couldn't go because I had to go to class but they walked all the way there and all that was there was his hat.

On Wednesday I was supposed to volunteer but they told me not to come in. I slept for most of the day and then Sammie and I went to the British Museum. The British Museum was so cool. We saw the Rosetta Stone and part of the Parthenon from Greece. There is so much stuff in that Museum you spend a long time in theer but we were only there for about two hours. The Asian stuff in there was pretty cool too. It was mostly artifacts and sculptures.

On Thursday I went to class and then took a nap, then we had a Christmas flat party! I'll write more about that tomorrow :) Right now I'm getting ready to go into central.

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