London, Sept. 14 and 15
Friday started out as usual, with sunny skies and us waking up at 8:30 and getting ready to leave by 11:00. We visited the British Museum first. This is a huge museum, full of cultural artifacts Britain has collected over the last 300-odd years. We looked at Egyptian artifacts, Greek and Roman artifacts, Korean ones, and we tried to get into the special Japanese exhibit but it cost extra. I generally don’t much care for cultural artifacts. There were, however, some interesting fossils in the rock they’d used for flooring in the museum. One of the Egyptian rooms in particular had a floor of shell hash, mostly brachiopods and what were either gastropods or nautiloids. Theresa got kind of embarrased because while everyone else checked out the exhibits, I was squatting down staring at the floor. We did see the Rosetta stone, which was kind of cool.
We broke for lunch at a good noodle shop. This is, I think, one of the only restaurants we’ve been to thus far with good service. Usually we have very surly waitstaff… We returned to the British Museum to look at their Islamic collection, which, for some reason, didn’t open until 2:30. After that I stopped by a comic store, and found nothing I couldn’t find in the US. sigh.
For dinner we went to a part of town that is supposed to have lots of good vegetarian restaurants. What no one tells you is that they’re creepy. We finally went to one extremely hippie vegan place, and began the worst meal of the trip. Even Theresa didn’t much care for what I got… We were also offered drugs while wandering around this neighborhood. Go figure.
Yesterday we meant to get an early start and perhaps hit the science museums. Instead we slept in and went to a food market for a while. We returned at 1:00 to pack because at 2:00 we were supposed to call Sheena, our new host, and move out to her home. The move was painless, and now we’re pretty well settled in at Sheena’s flat. Last night was Sheena’s brother’s birthday, so we went to his house for a little birthday party. I ended up putting on a little show, my new clubs’ maiden voyage into the world of performance. It went all right. Angus (Sheena’s brother) took some pictures with his digital camera and printed a few out for me. They are by far the strangest juggling pictures of me I’ve seen…he somehow timed the camera to perfectly catch an awkward pose or facial expression..looks insane.. Dinner was Chinese food. yum..
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