Through the Streets of London

Nearly two weeks ago now, I went to London for a long weekend with my classmates. It was so lovely to be there, I think I saw more people in a single tube station than I normally see a week in St. Andrews.  The weather was gorgeous, and I felt like I walked the whole city twice and only saw half of it: so exciting!

In theory, I was there with my classmates for the British Museum's Day for Museum Studies students.  The event was really good, and we had a great time exploring the British Museum as well.  As you can see below, we are very serious Museum Studies students as we ponder the ethics of the Parthenon Marbles...

I spent the rest of the weekend walking, marketing and museum-ing.  I went to Victoria and Albert, Tate Modern, Borough Market, Portobello Market, countless bookshops, and spent way too much time in the shops at Oxford Circus.  There were also late night open events at the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum.  Whew, it was so much fun.  This is the cast room at the V and A and the greeter at the Natural History:

Eight of us spent the weekend in a rather cramped hostel near Kings Cross, which was lacking in the hot water and pillow departments.  Nevertheless, it was absolutely worth it, and despite the hostel, we had such a good time! But I was very tired, as you can see below.  I'm sure the people in the V and A were very amused...  I was.

And finally, my new favorite business idea - selling coffee out of an orange VW bus!!!!  Meritt, I think that you and Teke should look into this, seriously.

It was such a packed, busy weekend.  We even went to church at Westminster Abbey.  It was the only way to get in without forking over 22 USD... I'm pretty sure that everyone knew what we were about.  But I did almost walk over the graves of Churchill and Darwin!!!  I felt a little guilty for that, but they were just there in the floor.

I hope that I get back to London this summer.  A couple of my classmates might be moving down, so that would be a great excuse for a visit!

For now though, I am up to my ears with work on my exhibition project.  It opens on the 18th of May, and I absolutely cannot wait until it opens, mostly because it means fewer epic meetings and so much less stress!  I'm running away from work on Friday though, I have tickets to see Iron and Wine in Edinburgh!

Hope you are well, I'd love to hear from you!
xo