I'm loving the warm weather, but I'd rather not be living in a sauna O.o This morning was terrible - Nicole and I were seriously dripping in sweat. It's really gross and now it's to the point where Nicole and I are hoping that it storms tomorrow - the rain will cool it down!
Today, we went to the Monument to the Great Fire of 1666 in Living and Dying. It's a large tower with a winding staircase of 311 steps. I don't like heights, so I went up, took some pictures, and went back down. We got a certificate thing saying that we made it up the Monument, it was exciting :D
After the monument, we went to Guildhall Library to work on our research paper topics. I think I'm doing mine on infanticide - so a happy topic. But there was a case where a woman was going into labour and she just told her servant that she was feeling nauseous. Her servant didn't believe her, but she didn't know the entire truth. What I want to know is how that woman concealed the fact that she was 9 months pregnant! I thought the dresses back then flaunted your hips, not your stomach...
When I got back to the room, the stifling heat hadn't gotten much better. The unfortunate thing about the heat is it was making us both rather lazy. We needed to get laundry done and we both stalled for a while because we didn't want to get up.
Eventually, though, we did manage to get up and get it done. After, we went to the Victoria and Albert Museum. The V&A is a museum centred around art, so there were sculptures all over the place. I had heard that there was a display of pld instruments and I wanted to see that, but we couldn't find it. I did see a really cool grand piano.
We were making our way to the Thratre and Performance section, thinking the instruments would be there, and looking at some tapestries (I definitely saw the word 'tapestries' and thought it in Indiana Jones's voice from The Last Crusade in my mind. Tapestries! If you don't know what I'm talking about, watch this. It's not the best quality but you can hear what I'm hearing in my head :D ) I don't even remember what Nicole and I were talking about, but I glanced through a doorway and stopped mid-sentance and said 'Ooh, Scar!' Scar and Sarabi's costumes from the West End show were on display in the theatre section. It was really cool to see them up close like that. On the way back from the V&A, Nicole and I went to Waitrose to get me some more vegetarian country pies (they're yummy and easy to make - just throw it in the oven for 30 min and I''ve got a meal!) and we found the J2O! Nicole and I were so excited and now have to practice some self control to not drink them all right now :] We also discovered that our kitchen has a bottle opener - we weren't sure if the bottles were twist top or not - which is lucky since they aren't.
When we got back to our room, I changed into a softball shirt and athletic shorts and I'm a little toasty but much more comfortable than earlier. I checked my emails and saw that Mrs Harper - my host mom in Cornwall - sent me an email. I thought that was very sweet, and I'm excited to go visit :]
I saw on facebook that someone talked about the Blagojevich retrial and I'm so glad that I'm not there for that. I'm so tired of him.
Nicole and I were going to try and go to Wicked tonight, but it was entirely sold out when we looked online so we're going to try again tomorrow. She's never seen it, I'm excited to see it again :D Hopefully it'll work out.
This entry is a rather random and jumping entry, but that's what the day was like, really. Tomorrow there's a meeting for everyone going on the trip to Stonehenge, Salisbury and Bath this weekend. I'm curious how they're going to sort out the room assignments, by roommates? By request? I guess we'll see.
Till then,
-Carly B
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