Singin' in the Rain!

      The nice thing about free travel weekend is that we've been able to do random things we've been wanting to do, but haven't had time. This morning, we started out at the John Soane museum. While he was alive, Soane collected tons and tons of random stuff and kept it all inside his house. He had huge rooms filled with statues, busts, books, paintings, a skeleton, and a sarcophagus! It was pretty cool, but the whole time we were walking through the rooms going, "...what?" The guy was like one of those hoarders on the TLC show! And apparently the sarcophagus in his house is the most valuable one outside of Egypt! It just seems so random that this random guy had the most valuable Egyptian artifact sitting in his house! Anyways, the museum was free, so it was worth it :)
      After that, we went to see the body of Jeremy Bentham at the College of London. Jeremy Bentham is this guy who wanted his body preserved for science in the 1800s, so it's been kept there ever since for people to come look at. It was honestly kinda weird ha. It was like being at body world!
      Next, we went up North to check out Highgate cemetery. The East side of the cemetery is open to the public (after paying some moola of course), and Karl Marx and George Eliot (the author) are buried in that part. That was cool to see their graves! The West side is closed to the public, and the only way to see it is to book a tour in advance. They only let 15 people in a day, so it's pretty exclusive I guess. Amanda and I were the only ones who wanted to go through the East part, and it took us a while to find Eliot's grave. Our tour was at 1:45, so we had to run through the cemetery to make it to the tour on time. Amanda and I have this thing with running late to places, especially in cemeteries! The tour through the West end was pretty interesting, but the only famous person I knew was the poet Christina Rossetti. The cemetery was way overgrown, but it made it look even cooler. I love the old cemeteries here! When we were on the set for Harry Potter, they said that Highgate cemetery inspired the gravestone used in Harry Potter 4! Anything having to do with Harry Potter is exciting ha.
      Right now in English class we're reading poetry from John Keats, and our teacher Nick told us we'd get extra credit for going to his house in Hampstead Heath. I really like Keats besides, so I was excited to go out to his house. The ride to his house took a while though, and we were all feeling a little worn out, so touring his house wasn't the most exciting thing ever. It wasn't even close to being inside Dove Cottage! It was kind of cool though, because Keats fell in love with the girl who lived next door, except for her family lived literally RIGHT next door, as in their houses were connected to each other. If you want to read something cute, look up Keats's love letters to Fanny Brawne. They're a little dramatic, but so cute :)
      We headed back to London to eat dinner, then we went and saw Singin' in the Rain!! I wasn't sure if I was going to like it, because Katherine told me it was all tap dancing and singing and what not. It was based on the movie with Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds, and the show was getting good reviews, so I decided it would be fun to go with everybody. We got to the box office about an hour and a half before, and got front row seats! And, the show was fantastic! The acting was so good, and the songs were so fun! There was a lot of dancing, but I loved it actually. The scene where Don Lockwood sings Singin' in the Rain was a blast, because it rained on stage and the actor kicked water at us! Then at the end they did one more number where the whole cast came out and danced and kicked water at us. It was so fun! We got pretty wet, and I was just smiling the whole time. It was a fun way to end the day :)