Well - at some stage we ended up going to the British Museum. It's truly an amazing and fascinating place to check out, and - it's FREE! Definitely a good thing when you still haven't received a paycheck in the local currency. Also - it means you don't have any obligation to attempt to get your money's worth and see the entire museum all at once, so you can check it out one section at a time, without getting yourself all British-Museumed-out.
They've done a good job in swiping incredibly valuable cultural icons from all over the world, placing them all under one roof (seemingly not feeling any guilt for it!), and allowing tourists like us to gawk at them.
Take for instance, this Easter Island statue... I hate to say it, but although the statue in itself is pretty fascinating, what I found more interesting was that I just saw Ben Stiller in "A Night at the Museum" on the flight over here... "Hello dumb dumb, give me gum gum" certainly has a catchy ring to it.
They also have the Rosetta Stone there - which is what they used to help them decrypt Egyption hieroglyphs (check it out on wikipedia). See - I can't help but think that something as important as that is kept in a museum in London, rather than back where it was originally from!
And - we also went to check out the Museum of Natural History, with Anthony Lui (at friend from church back in Sydney). This museum is really for kids, but it does have quite a few interesting displays of dinosaur bones... and an animatronic T-Rex (pictured).
What's more interesting is that JK Rowling is releasing the next and final Harry Potter book there (Tracy entered us into the competition to witness the event - childish I know, but since we're over here...), and is also doing an all-night reading of it. The inside of the entrance hall has a kind of Hogwarts kind of feel to it...
Anyway - in more recent news:
- tonight we went to see the London Philharmonic Orchestra play in the newly renovated Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank. The concert was fantastic - but as it always seems to be the case for me, too much of a good thing becomes a tad boring. The accoustics of the hall were great - we were sitting right up the back, and could hear everything. Even when the guy playing some sort of wooden block thing with a stick, dropped his stick.
- Tracy found a job! Well - she found two actually (after having little success after searching for more than 2 months!!!), and now has to decide which one to accept (wouldn't you hate to be in that position).
- We're going to see the Lord of the Rings muscial (!?!?!??!?) on Friday.
- We've booked to go to Amsterdam in a fortnight's time.
- I lost an my Oyster Card with GBP 17.50 on it. ARGH!
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