Day 10 - British Library, British Museum

Up and at 'em early again this morning!

We headed out on the tube again (I'm actually getting pretty good at it!) and went to the British Library. I am a huge book nerd, and a huge history nerd, so the fact that they house a giant collection of old books had me totally nerding out. I saw the Magna Carta, which was pretty much fabulous, and looked at some Shakespeare folios and such. Just so much booky awesomeness. YAY!

After that we walked to the British Museum, which also fed my inner history nerd. Speaking of food, I had lunch at the cafe there that made Jayme a bit happy: I got fruit and salad! Yay vitamins! I did have bread too (which was AWESOME) but I also had yummy salad greens with balsamic vinegar and fresh pineapple and pure orange juice - so many more organic options and such over here!!

So from there I had to pick and choose because we only had a couple of hours to go through this enormous museum. I had to see the Elgian Marbles and the Rosetta Stone and mummies and other ancient Egypt stuff and the Bog Man, so I power-walked through most of the place and I did see the Rosetta Stone and mummies and the Bog Man, but I'm not sure if I saw the Elgian marbles. I saw a bunch of things that I thought were the marbles, but I never actually saw a sign so I'm going to have to look it up and see if I actually saw them or not. I hope I did because the FSEM I was the writing assistant for talked extensively about Greek history.

And after that, it was time for the Tower of London!! We didn't have a lot of time there either, but I got to see the crown jewels and do my Moriarty imitation and do some more shopping. Fun times!

After that, we went to Asa Briggs Hall at Richmond University to meet with Maria and some other students at her university. It was cool to hear about what they've experienced being students studying abroad, and afterwards Cara and Maria and I went back to her dorm to hang out, where she is graciously letting us bum off of her internet.

And oh my goodness, the three of us hanging out is EPIC. So. Much. Amazing. You wouldn't even believe it. These videos are going to be wonderful.