June 20th 2011

Last day of our weekend off! The girls and I made it to the Sherlock Holmes museum. It was very interesting… very detailed, with real fire blazing in the fireplace. The very top floor was clad in wax figures that look very much alive in the pictures I took. Right next door to the museum was the Beatles store. I was very excited to check this place out, since they are one of my favorite bands, but of course, everything found inside was way overpriced, so I had to turn it all down… although I almost bought a Beatles juke box for 2,000 pounds, but I realized I probably didn’t have that much room in my suitcase…. We then ventured to the famous Abbey Road crosswalk, where it is actually very difficult to get in a good picture. People driving on the streets don’t really care if you’re trying to capture such a splendid moment, so you gotta walk briskly! We then found the National Gallery where we saw lots of van Gogh painting, which I thought was really cool. It’s so neat be familiar with paintings from textbooks or pictures on the internet, and then see the originals with your own eyes. We were so tired after that, so we decided to rest for the remainder of the afternoon before heading to the Globe theatre to see Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing, and it was a great production. However, it was raining for most of the performance. I felt terrible for the people in the yard, where there was no cover! Fun day overall, and only 5 days left! It’s gone by so fast!

Elementary, my dear Rachael