Tower of London
Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Time to fill in what I've been up to. Get ready for a doozy. Yesterday we all (About 8 of us) hopped on the tube and headed off to the Tower of London. The tube station we left from was how it was when it was first made in the 1960's (I think 1960's). It was an interesting sight, especially thinking of how many people have been on the same platform (I'm going to say this probably ever day about every place). I couldn't find Platform 9 3/4, but that's probably because I'm not a wizard. Moving on. I actually brought my camera this time and took over 300 pictures with it (Thanks for letting me bring your camera, Kate! [my sister]) You can check my facebook for the good ones. One of the first things we saw when we got out of Tower Hill station was this huge sundial with an old man singing next to it. The architecture was phenomenal, ranging from ancient to modern styles. They all looked cool. That is the extent of my knowledge about architecture. Please try not to be too impressed. When we turned around, there was the Tower of London, all majestic-like, with clouds sailing by it. I'm pretty sure the crowned jewels are in there, but we didn't go in this time. You might now think that is all we did. Nope. We walked just about everywhere. We took a picture with this statue. I couldn't tell you who it was, because the sign on it really didn't help, but he looked cool. We walked across the Tower Bridge. The combination of this and the actual Tower with all the modern buildings was something I've never experienced before coming here. Some of these buildings are centuries old, while others are probably not too much older than myself. One looked like a building that should be in space, and the other shot up into the sky, like that one tower Saruman stands on. We walked across the bridge as cars and buses whizzed by. We stumbled back to the Borough Market (there is food everywhere). The girls haven't seen it yet, so they went in as the guys explored. We saw Southwark Cathedral. This was where Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and many more people have gone since 606. Afterwards, we all met up again and headed to the Globe (Shakespeare Theatre) to just look around. We walked next door to look at some art.
Art Exhibit (Art Rant/Critique)
I honestly wasn't impressed with most of it. There was a couple floors of different types of art. Literally, one exhibit looked like someone dropped their pants and relieved themselves all over the floor. And by literally, I mean literally. I had a similar response to Picasso's paintings. It was cool that I was able to see such famous pieces, but seriously, I felt the duty on the floor exhibit had more meaning. If I drew like Picasso did when I was five, I would've probably been embarrassed if my mom put the picture on the fridge. I hope I'm not offending any art fans with my rant. But seriously, how is there any merit behind his works of art. Each piece of art had an explanation beside it. Beside one of his paintings, it said that he completed it in one day. Well paint me yellow and call me big bird. One day! That's so impressive! You might ask, "I thought you said his artwork was less impressive then a room scattered with excrement." This is where I would tell you how I was just being sarcastic. In fact, it's embarrassing that it took a whole day. I've seen a first grade art class produce something better in one 40 minute period. How is that worth millions? In another room there was a giant canvas with vertical blue lines of paint. That was it. But it was art. That's all it takes to be a famous artist, draw really big lines a couple times. Beautiful. Astounding. Sorry for my rant. Maybe I feel my Jeff Reed mask I made in 8th grade should be in the Louvre or maybe I'm just a little bit jealous that I didn't think of drawing ugly pictures to be famous first. Obviously, I'm a tad bitter. Just don't judge me too much. It was still cool to see "art," some of which were famous. I guess a positive from this is to realize that I have an opinion, even if it makes me a bit upset. Finally, we walked across a uniquely designed bridge (kinda looked like a strand of DNA).
St. Paul's Cathedral
This was absolutely gigantic. There were no pictures allowed, so we didn't take any inside. They were about to sing, so we got in for free, but only got to see a small portion of it. Absolutely beautiful. We headed back to the tube.
LillyWhites
On the way back home, we stopped at Lillywhite's (spelling?). It was a sports store. On the second floor, there was tons of soccer gear. I was walking in the clouds. Clouds with racks upon racks of soccer gear. There were jerseys everywear. A whole room stacked to the ceiling with soccer cleats (boots) it was called the boot room.
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