This morning, my friend Kate and I went to the National Portrait Gallery. They have portraits of lots of authors, musicians, philosophers, and even newer ones of Princess Diani, Prince Charles, McJagger, and Paul McCartney. I think those were my favorites, but there were also paintings of Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, James Joyce, TS Eliot and tons more. We were supposed to go to the Gallery as one of our assignments, but it was actually pretty cool to see!
After coming home from the gallery, we took a boat down the Thames to Greenwich. The boat ride was probably the funnest part of the trip. We went past Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, and went under the Tower Bridge, which I realized is in the Mummy 2, so that made me pretty excited! After the boat docked at Greenwich, we went to find this restaurant called Big Red. Big Red is a double decker bus that they turned into an Italian restaurant! So we ate pizza in the top of a double decker bus! It was pretty cool :) After that, we went to the Planetarium and Royal Observatory, which is at the Prime Meridian! At the Prime Meridian latitude and longitude are at zero, so that's pretty cool. They also have the official measurements for a foot, six inches, two feet, and a British yard. Not very exciting stuff, but it was cool to see! It cost 5 pounds to put your toe up to the "official" line at zero latitude and longitude, so we just stood outside on the "nonofficial" line. We went to go see the Cutty Sark next, which is an old Viking ship where you can walk under it. We thought it was going to be free, but when we got there the sign said it cost 16 pounds just to walk under the boat! Yeah right! Since that didn't work out, we decided to head back home. On the boat ride home we were getting pretty hyper, because we were all so tired. Amanda taught us how to talk in a way like ebbie debbie language, but instead of putting a 'b' after every vowel, you put an 'lf' after every vowel. We were already really hyper, so it was so funny trying to talk like that! My title says Greenwich and Peter Pan in Amanda's weird language :)
After we got off the boat, we took the tube back to Bayswater, which is one of the three tube stations we take to get to the center. Kelsey and I got frozen yogurt, then we came back to the center to chill and do some homework. The homework hasn't been too bad, we just have a lot of reading. Next week is our last full week, so it's probably going to be pretty busy with getting ready for our finals. Anyways, we decided to watch a movie tonight! We're watching Peter Pan right now, which is one of my all time favorite movies :) I've missed watching movies, so it's fun to watch it with some girls who haven't seen it before.
"You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting." --J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan.
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