Sooooo exhausted! But hey, we have only three days of class left and London is amazing, so I can power through.
Another early morning, but yay for free breakfast. We trekked down to the tube station, me half asleep on the day I had to lead everybody to our destination of course. Well, actually Paul led on the underground and then I had to lead once we got to the right stop. Which was not hard because you could almost see the place from the tube station. And by the place, I mean the Museum of London. We've been to a ton of museums on this trip so I can feel myself getting a bit burnt out, but the Museum of London did have some new information that was actually able to make its way into my sleep-deprived brain, and it was actually quite fascinating to more or less literally walk through the city's history from the first human settlements to the modern age. They even had little displays of popular clothes from the '80s, '90s, and '00s So weird to see stuff from 2003 in a museum...
From the Museum of London, we walked to Saint Paul's Cathedral. That thing is HUGE. It towers over a lot of the city, though nowadays it has to comete with skyscrapers and such. The architecture was really cool outside, and inside was simply gorgeous. No pictures allowed inside, so I'm afraid you'll have to go to google images for that. Despite my exhaustion, I decided that I wouldn't forgive myself if I didn't walk up to the top of the dome (900 something steps!), so I did. It was a little bit frightening, given that a lot of the staircases were see-through metal spiral things, so you could see just how high you'd gone, and others were tiny claustrophobic stone tunnel-like things. But the view was epic and I have lots of pictures from that. We had to do a bit of sketching somewhere within the church, so I picked a section of the interior of the dome. It did not turn out so well, but I had good intentions and in my defence domes are difficult!
Afterwards, we walked across the Millenium Bridge and past the Globe Theatre! So I have now seen the Globe Theatre!! YAY! The writing nerd in my did a little dance. From there, we trekked to Borough Market, which is this splendid open air market with all sorts of cheeses and breads and juices and preserves and such. I got some artisan ice cream - vanilla and pecans in a waffle cone - and it was glorious! Most of the group was going to see a play at the Globe at 7:30, but I had decided not to go because #1 I've never read Cymbeline before and #2 it was going to be in Arabic, so I would be utterly lost. Also I was insanely tired, so I went back to the hotel with some people and just completely crashed in my bed. YAY NAPS!
Maria and I had planned to get together this evening to just hang out and stuff since she's leaving for the weekend and I'll be flying out as she gets back, so when I finally woke up I called her and asked about her plans. It was a bit late, but she hadn't eaten yet so we had dinner at this nice little Italian place and then went to her dorm. We talked while I used her computer, and she graciously let me use her google voice account to call my parents and my sister. So I got to talk to my mom and my sister tonight! Yay! It was nice to vocally fill them in a little on what I've been up to. And after that, since Maria had asked, I cut her hair. She had told me that she needed a haircut but wasn't looking forward to paying London prices for it, and I offhandedly mentioned that I had cut Kayla's, so she asked me how it turned out and I said good and then she asked me to cut hers because it was driving her crazy. So I did! Looks pretty good, too, if I do say so myself. This needs to be my side job!
Not really sure what the class is up to tomorrow because I don't have my schedule in front of me, but I know that we have a late morning start, finally! YAY SLEEP!
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