London Day 2&3

Hey everyone! I’m a little behind on my blog as you can see. Days two and three of London were pretty similar so I’m going to combine them into one blog. I woke up Friday and left my hostile around 10:30 to head to the Museum of Natural History. I’m pretty sure this is the place they filmed the movie “Night at the Museum” and it sounded like a cool place to visit, so I figured I’d start the day off with a little history. I walked around the museum for around an hour and half or two hours. It was a neat museum with some pretty interesting exhibits. I liked the interactive ones in particular where you could see how decisions you made affected the outcomes. I left the museum and walked a ways down to Buckingham Palace. I didn’t get to see the changing of the guard (which was at 11:30) which is pretty famous, but it wasn’t that big of a deal to me. I wasn’t really sure what to do for the rest of the day, so I headed back over to Westminster for awhile. It was raining off and on all afternoon, so I thought about watching a movie, since I hadn’t seen any of the new releases, and I was in fact in an English speaking country. I headed back over to the Fullham/Chelsea area where I was staying looking for a movie theater. I ended up walking 20 minutes in the rain to find that the theater I had thought was showing the premier of “Green Lantern” was actually only showing old films. But they pointed me to a theater, 5 minutes back towards where I came from and I found a movie showing in about 30 minutes. I thought the movie was really pretty good. I had no prior knowledge of the Green Lantern superhero, besides hearing the name; I thought the overall concept was pretty cool.

Day three in London was a pretty relaxed day. I had decided the night before I really didn’t want to deal with the hassle of taking a two hour bus outside the city to view either Windsor Castle or Stonehenge. Even though they are really historic sites, I didn’t really want to spend 4 hours total on a bus to spend two or three hours outside the city. So I started the morning by going to the Museum of Science next to the Museum of Natural History. I walked around the museum for a few hours and then just walked around the downtown area for awhile. I ended up catching another afternoon movie (I saw Thor) and then ended up walking around Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus for awhile. I went into M&M world there, which is a giant store, all things M&M on four stories (pretty much anything M&M you could ever want). I ended the evening by walking back over to Westminster and getting some pictures of the London Eye and Parliament lit up at night; took a few pictures and called it a weekend.

Jonathan