So much to take in...

Today I feel like we got a lot done.   I got up, showered, proofread my nutrition paper, emailed it to my professor and got ready.  Ad went and got delicious pastries for breakfast with coffee.  He got breakfast for Em too but she ended up not coming over. So we ate hers too.  After we ate we headed for the tube to meet the other Rau’s at Westminster Abbey.  However, we realized that we got on the wrong district line so had to get off and catch the Circle Line.  Once we did that we were all set. 

We made it to the Abby and met Doug, Janet, and the girls to tour the church.  It was unlike anything I have seen before and there was so much to take in.  It was the most decorative, exquisite; awing burial ground I have ever seen.  What else that makes it unique is that it still functions as a church and is still used for coronation of the royalty, weddings, funerals, etc.  It was also hard to wrap my head around how old some parts of the church are.  Most of it looks amazing for being hundreds of years old.  There is also that creepy factor that you are walking and gawking at graves with the remains of hundred-year-old corpses.  Overall I was very impressed.

While we were in that section of London we took time to admire Big Ben, look at Parliament and get some lunch.  The sites were spectacular to see.  Lunch was at a little pub down one of the side streets and was good.  After that Doug had to leave for work in a city south of London.  He will be gone the tomorrow but back on Wed.   As we walked back to the tube station Janet and the girls went one way while we went the other.  Ad and I caught a train to go visit the museum, Tate Britain. 

Tate Britain was interesting and I liked the old British art a lot.  Yet I really couldn’t appreciate the significance of everything because I don’t know enough about who is who or what is what.  It was still cool to walk around and admire the beautiful paintings.  It made me want to actually take advantage of the museums in St. Louis.

After the Tate we took the tube up to the British Museum.  While we were walking Ad and I got caught in a rainstorm.  We hung out under a tree to try and avoid the driving rain.  When it let up a little bit we ran to the museum.  It was awesome and we didn’t even cover much at all.  We saw the Egyptian, Greek, Money, and Clock exhibits before we were shooed out because they were closing.  Back to the tube station and hotel where we met up with Em for dinner.  We went to a pub around the corner and had more bar food.

If there is something that I am not impressed with in London it is the food.  I may not be looking in the right places but so far not too impressive.  The nice part about the food is that there is a wide variety of the types of food.  Em and I are going to try some Thai food and Indian food later this week. After dinner we headed back to the hotel and are having some down time watching a British movie that we don’t know the name of.  It is entertaining.