Saturday...

Well today I got to hang out with the Milligan Humanities tour again which was fun. We first went to the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, which apparently ever other person in the world wanted to do as well. It was very CROWDED. So I didn't see a whole lot once the soldiers got into the gates. But it was cool.

You can kind of see the crowds in this picture.



Here's another shot of the horse guards coming in. That is the Victoria statue in front of Buckingham Palace. See all the people.

Then we went to lunch at a really good Italian place. I had a mozzarella, basil and tomato sandwich. It was delicioso. Then we went to the Britain at War museum. I think Algie would've loved it but it was kind of cheesy. It replicated a bomb shelter during World War II and had a lot of period artifacts but it was kind of smelly and smokey down there (as it would have been during WWII) and had a lot of manikins dressed up like soldiers.

Then we went to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Victoria was Queen of England. She ruled from 1837 to 1901. She was kind of depressed a lot though because her husband Albert died at 42. So she never looked happy in pictures after his death. But she was the longest reigning monarch in British history and built this museum which was full of all kinds of cool stuff.
She doesn't look happy does she? There is a really good movie about her called "Mrs. Brown" which has Judi Dench in it if you are interested.

In the Victoria and Albert museum they had this one really cool room where plaster models had been made of all kinds of cool artifacts all over Europe, tombs, statues, columns etc. This is a shot of me and England's second most famous Queen....Eleanor of Aquitaine. Wife of the most powerful medieval English monarch Henry II and She was the mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John who signed the Magna Carta.


Then me, Traci Smith, Carrie S, and a few students had afternoon tea at Harrod's Dept store.

It was lovely. Then i went to the kids section at Harrods. Harrods is one of the most huge dept stores ever. It covers 4.5 acres and has over one million square feet of selling space. So it is a little city. If they don't have it, you don't need it. So picture what kind of kid's section they would have. It was awesome. So I had to buy eliza some books to read.

Then we walked around forever, I was so tired, and then finally ended up eating at this Greek restaurant and it was SO GOOD. Then I said good-bye to my Milligan buddies as they are heading to Amsterdam tomorrow and I went back to my hotel to get ready for bed as my sweet love comes to England in the morning. She will get to London 12.30 my time which will be about 7.30 your time (if you are EST)

So all in all a brilliant day. Cheers!