The next day..

So the actual purpose for being in England was so that Aaron could go meet with his professors in the University that he didn't make up! So the conundrum was- what to do with Jill?! He asked me if I wanted to just sleep in (keep in mind I had only been in Europe for 2 days at this time...my body was still out wack!) and kinda spend time in the house we were staying at until he got back, or go to the British Museum. I only had to think a moment about it (because sleep is SO enticing to me!) before I thought! Hey! I'm in England- I'm not staying the house all day! I gotta see this place!

So once we got to the museum, Aaron got me a little audio guide and left for his meeting- as I left for the ancient Egyptian exhibit! (I think that I got the better deal!) I just wanted to say that mom- you should be so proud of me! I went from being so overly humiliated as a freshman at Ricks when we went on the tour of the campus (on the golf cart) because there were a few students walking around- and they might have seen me!!!!- to being able to walk around with headphones on- all by myself- in a museum full of thousands of people! oh, sniff, I've just grown up so much!!! So I took the picture for you mom- to show you that I did it!

I enjoyed wandering around and learning about all the different ancient artifacts. I decided that The Egyptian artifacts were the most intriguing to me! I'll just put a few of the highlights on here- so as to not bore the "I don't like museums" people! The funny thing here was that each time I went into a room- I would usually be one of the few people there. I would read about it etc.. and then as I got my camera out- Its as though the circus was in town! Lines of people were everywhere! Tour groups came out of no where! After about 10 times of that- I learned to first take the picture and then learn about it!

So lets take a walk back into history and learn about what happened long long ago...

This marvelous piece of work is what people are calling the "Rosetta Stone". Yep. A HUGE deal and little ole me had never heard of it! Luckily Aaron had talked it up on the way over so I was really excited to see it. Super cool because (for those of you like me, who don't know what it is...) it is a single passage that is written in 3 different language(one of them being hieroglyphics). Therefore, by having the other languages above it, people were able to decipher hieroglyphics! (Please history scholars out there correct me if I'm wrong! ) But thats what I am remembering that it is.

And the next stop on our tour we shall see...

Some Egyptian drawings that look ever so familiar to me! It really reminded of the drawing that is in the Pearl of Great Price... Do you see it?! So I had to get a picture of it. (As you can see there is a flash in these pictures ! I was so annoyed and didn't realize until after I had left the museum, that there was a museum feature on my camera! Oh well! Live and learn!)

And lastly, just some more thing that I liked! I just found it interesting that these things were the ACTUAL things from ages ago! Like- how on earth did they get that horse person out of the ground and all the way to Berlin without breaking it?! Mind boggling really!

There were pieces of the Parthenon in the museum that England had stolen from Greece, so that was cool to see and last but not least- in the Chinese portion of the tour- there were many many Buddha's . However, I had never seen a Buddha quite like this one before.

You know, I'm walking around and seeing all these serious Buddha's and then he popped out of no where! Look at how HAPPY he is! Isn't that funny! He made me smile, so he gets to be on here!

I think he was the Buddha of good eats and that was why he was so happy! Therefore, I think that the moral of the story is this- Chubbiness= Happiness. Skinniness =misery and stiffness . Don't believe me-Here's the picture to prove my point. So...where did I put that chocolate bar?!

After a few hours, I did actually begin to get lonely and was thankful that Aaron had returned. When we walked out of the museum he pulled 2 tickets out. Knowing that London is known for it's musicals--He surprised me with 2 tickets. But it gets even better. He knows how much I love Lord of the Rings. and even though he doesn't like it all that much- like at all- that is (I know I know, we're working on that! :) ) he still bought 2 tickets to the musical LOTR . Before our trip, I didn't even know that existed! I guess its not going to be there for long- so we got in just in time! I was so excited!!! He is so great like that! In the picture below, I describe myself as so overly excited, it borders on the word "freaky"!

So before we went to the show, we decided it was time for me to eat some infamous fish and chips! We saw this cute place (I think that I was the one who called it "cute"- I doubt that was the wording that Aaron used! ) we went in, ordered, and it was actually super yummy!

As we walked out, I THEN realized the name of the place that we had been eating in! Check it out!

You know, since our family is from England and all- I left their believing that it was an old family restaurant! Had I know beforehand the name of the place, I would have asked for a free meal! (Actually we did get a free desert! The owner said that he gave anyone going to the LOTR a free desert, but now I'm wondering if he really knew who I was- and used that for a cover! hmm...curious! Curious indeed!)

I'm pretty sure that's a picture of great great G-pa Young. Don't you think dad?! (Wink wink) :)


Then over to the show...



And here we are inside! It was a beautiful building!




Yeah, I was practicing being Royal in this picture. I kind of did that a lot this trip! Sad, I know. But true!

I do believe we crashed that night! It was a long, but wonderful day! Did I mention how much I loved England?! Okay, just curious!