We only had one agenda item today, the British museum. Amazing. This morning started slowly, as I was worried about getting the nickname slave driver, aka travel nazi....I am in London, I don't want to waste one minute. So we didn't get started until after 9, and we walked to a different tube line, Sloane sq (as opposed to South Kensington). This area is very swanky, we passed by Tiffany and Co., Chanel, etc...However, we also passed by a McDonalds, so that kept it real. We arrived without hassle to the Museum, and wove our way around hundreds of tourists to the Rosetta stone. We were transported back in time surrounded by tons of carved stone that looked surprisingly like Ramses II. It even smelled like 2, 000 years ago, before the invention of deodorant. Who knew this was a scatch and sniff exhibit? Once we moved on, it started to smell better and we saw Cleopatra's sarcophagus and mummy. We ended up in the Greek/Italian exhibits, and saw some artifacts from Iran (Biblically related). The older exhibits were kept in old bookcases, reminding me of Stanley Livingston. Crazy stuff those Brits stole... err... I mean legitimately acquired through careful archeologist excavation. Then we ate lunch in the museum restaurant-we spent about $60 for mini diet cokes, a salmon salad and prawn noodle salad, with 2 hunks of bread. Yep, blew the wad for the day on produce! On the way home we had to MacGyver the tube due to a body on the line. A British friend told me this is a new way for people to end themselves, and it happens quite frequently. Sad. We ended the day getting Japanese takeaway for £11.50 and hung out in the flat.
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