london underground without luggage = 1,000 times better
one of the coolest things about london (and england in general) is that all of the museums are free. that's right... zip. zero. nada. so we spent a while at the british museum, admiring super old structures from babylon, assyria, the elgin marbles, the mauseleum and halicarnissus... i really don't know what these mean or what they are...but for you history buffs (dad) i hope you understand the lingo. either way, the statues were amazing.
we spent a good deal of time walking around the city... the busy bits and the fringes of soho... and even ran into some fellow arizonans... they were actually as excited as we were... doesn't happen often.
down carnaby street, where the swinging 60's started (twiggy era)... we came across the cutest little shop
with fun little things here and there. check to check it out. it's called howie's.
on the left is a little 'geek corner' which is how every bookshelf should be displayed... and on the right is cool little tidbit for the earth lovers. here's what it reads:
tap water is cool.
it tastes like bottled water
it looks like bottled water
it's as healthy as bottled water
it's as wet as bottled water
it's as thirst quenching as bottled water
but tap water has a smaller carbon footprint
sometimes 500-600 times smaller
gulp
then we stumbled across the greatest restaurant yet.
delicious pizza. michael buble. black and white pics of elvis on the wall. could life get better?
after our amazing dinner, simon treated us to a show called 39 Steps...which we were a little apprehensive about. would we understand this english humor? in the end... it was probably one of the funniest things ever. a slapstick of events gone wrong, following the various stories of albert hitchcock films...all performed by just 4 brilliant actors. definitely a night to remember.
the next day, we visited a small town called st. albans, where we experienced our first english pasty. omg. seriously though... delectable. then off to another amazing cathedral
