A Little Bit of London

Yesterday we slept in late and then went for lunch at an old pub for fish and chips. Except I got a chicken Kiev. It was very good but hard to eat because my right bottom wisdom tooth hurts so much. I got over my cold and my gums around that tooth got all swollen and red and very painful. So painful the first night I couldnt sleep until I took advil. First time in my life I have felt advil kick in. It works pretty good. But not good enough cause it just dulls the pain to make it bearable, but it is still there.

Anyways, after lunch we went to the British Museum, which is not really British at all. It is just a bunch of stuff that Britian has stolen or "received as a gift for their efforts...." or whatever, from all over the world. There is over 7 Million (!) items. We mostly looked at the ancient Egypt stuff and their mummies, cause all of the rest of the stuff we have seen at other museums. Once you have seen 100 greek sculptures you have seen them all. Nothing can blow me away about them anymore I dont think. It was a very good museum, and best of all it was free! Actually most of the museums are free here, which is both good and bizzare, seeing as how they make you pay through the nose for everything else!

Then we had supper back at the hostel and watch half of the old Wicker Man movie (really bizzare) and then Shakespeare in Love, which was really good! We went to be at a resonable hour.

Today we slept in again. We went to the Natural History Museum and saw tonnes of Dinasaur bones ( well actually cast of bones, you will be suprised to hear there are barely any real dinasaur bones on display at museums, they are all casts) and stuffed Mammals. There was a cool interactive place with human biology. We didnt go everywhere cause we bore easily. Then we went to McDonalds for "lunch" at 4 because it is cheap there. Then we tried to squeeze in the Science Museum. It sounds boring, but it is actually very cool. I spent most of the time on one floor and it closed before I got to see everything. They even had a Euthanasia Machine that humans used to kill themseleves when they were terminally ill from Autralia. They has to get a catheter put in them and then answer a bunch of questions on a laptop which would trigger the machine to admisister them a leathal dose of anesthetic. It was actually leagal in Australia for 2 years!! Crazy! Then there was this program that took a picture of you and showed what you would look like as a man (or as a woman if you already are a man). I would make a pretty ugly guy. That museum was too cool. It is probably mostly for kids but we are going back tomorrow because they kicked us out before we could see anything. I can't wait to go back. Joel can't either. They kicked him out while he was testing himself to see if he thought more like a man or a woman. I think the answer is going to bug him all night. He is not going to be able to sleep tonight. Eric did finish it and it said he thought more like a woman. Ha! Confirming what I knew all along!

Tomorrow is our last full day of the trip, and up until now I was so excited to go home and couldnt wait. I am still excited, but now that it is at the end it is bittersweet. I kinda want to stay. I kinda dont want to go back to the same routine. I kinda dont want to go back to work. But I do miss my dogs and my bed and I miss my job, I love what I do so much, I just dont like all the driving and getting home late everyday that it involves.

See Everyone Soon!!