Friday, August 23, 2013

The Adventures of the Easily Distracted

Location: London, England

I did it again! I fell asleep while writing an entry. So I'm posting it now instead:

The day is Thursday the 22nd, the time is 10:30pm, and Jazlin and I are sitting on the floor of the laundry room in the basement of the Palmer's Lodge Swiss Cottage hostel. As our clothes go swish-swash back and forth in the machines to our left, we sit and contemplate the day.

It started out just like any other day, with an insistent alarm clock chattering away in my ear. Then, just three hours later, Jazlin and I were ambling down Baker Street toward the Sherlock Holmes museum. We didn't end up going inside the museum itself, as we encountered an unmoving line stretching out for several hundred feet and we had already gotten going a bit late, but we did pay a brief visit to the gift shop and took several moderately blurry pictures of ourselves standing out in front of 221 Baker Street.


At that point we had not yet worked up the courage to attempt the London underground with our shiny new day passes for zones 1 and 2. So, after spending a bit of time looking around for food inexpensive enough that I wouldn't snub it, we took a bus to the Victoria and Albert Museum. It was big. We barely left the first floor. It was awesome though, and we got to see statues, massive plaster pillar castings with cool designs running all the way around them, a collection of ancient keys, locks, and lockboxes, entire rooms of intricate stonework, woodwork, and metalwork, and a strange but neat glass sculpture which was suspended over the information desk and bore thousands of tendrils of blue and yellow glass.


Also visited today was the outside of the Globe Theater (located near from a bridge which Jazlin and I were fairly certain has been "destroyed" several times in movies we have watched.) We even hiked over to an obscure street which lay claim to one of the few remaining actual police call boxes (How many renditions of the Tardis can Lindsey and Jazlin visit? Hmmm...)




(As promised, a few pictures of the hostel we stayed at in London.)

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2 comments:

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Hi Lindsey,
Your mom and I went into Eugene today for her to get Schwab set up for your account. It got complicated because they wouldn't take cash and also, their computers were down. Kathy got them a money order while I was getting my teeth cleaned, but that didn't fix the computer problem they were still having. Hope they can fix it in time to do you some good.

Thanks for the blog. It was good to have it to come home to today.

Wishing you luck.

Love, Grandpa and Grandma

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The museum looks so huge! I know, that's because it is huge. Thanks for the great recap and picutes.