Ah! So tired!!
Don't get me wrong, I am having a blast, but I realized today that we haven't had a day off since April 22. It's a lot to take in, especially when you're an introvert like me.
So. This morning was another crazy tube ride and then the Victoria and Albert Museum. We looked at a lot of artifacts from William Morris' time period, so there was a lot of cool furniture and dishes and clothing and such. Speaking of clothing, there was aroom where you could try on a gentlemen's coat and/or a corset and that underskirt with the hoops that makes sitting impossible. I didn't try them on, but I did try on the coat and got a picture, and a lot of my classmates tried on the corset and skirt and I got pictures and video and it was great. My favorite part of the museum though was probably the theater and performance section, if only for the fact that there was a rhinoceros model there that was used in a play in which Benedict Cumberbatch acted! I nerded out.
Afterwards we had a pricey lunch at the cafe there (beef and carrot pie for me which was actually pretty good) and then walked to Hyde Park which is GORGEOUS. The weather actually held, which was especially nice since we have been outside in sooooo much rain lately and when we got up this morning it was grey and drizzly, but then it warmed up and we actually saw the sun! I got to wear my converse instead my waterproof hiking boots for the first time in days!! So we strolled through the park and visited the Albert Memorial and the Diana Memorial. The Albert Memorial is almost too much to believe - huge and gold plated and towering and marble and just...a lot. I liked the Diana one better, though I did wish it had a plaque or something more monument-y feeling to explain to visitors who may not know her story just who she was and what she did and why the memorial looks the way it does. It's this cool circle ribbon of marble that runs over this section of mildly hilly ground and water flows through it at different speeds and configurations. They even encourage you to "paddle your feet and hands" in the water. It was chilly, but I did run my hands through it. Very peaceful.
After that we walked to the Kensington Palace. We had about two hours to go through all the rooms and displays about Diana and Queen Victoria and such, but everyone was reeeeeeallllllyyyy tired and just plain worn out at this point - even the professors - and it only took about half an hour to forty minutes, so we got to end the day early. Yay!! Again, not that I'm not having a blast, but it is just sooo much. I grabbed a quick dinner and washed my clothes in our bathtub because the laundry place is too freaking expensive, and then I met Maria and we did a little grocery shopping at Sainsbury before we went to her dorm to hang out. I am bumming her internet yet again (thank you Maria - you are a saint!!!!!) and we are eating peaches and treacle tart and some sort of squidgy banana cake thing and milk. Fun times!!
Tomorrow we meet at the TARDIS and then go to Manchester to meet Jaime and other Time Agent people!! EXCITEMENT!!!
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