The Park to Portobello Rd

Let's see, where did I leave off? It's been a few days... Wednesday I had my morning bio class, then I walked to Hyde park because it was such a gorgeous day. I stumbled upon these really comfy lounge chairs by round pond, and I was sitting in one for quite a while, falling asleep and listening to music, when some guy came up to me and informed that you actually had to pay to use the lounge chairs. oops. I also took some good creeper photos of random people, haha.

I think that was really the most exciting thing of Wednesday, except for the late-nite trip to Sainsbury for a cookie dough craving. It's funny because when you go to Trigs or something they have literally dozens of choices, but here they had only one choice of chocolate chip and I think one sugar; kinda says something about the US versus the UK, huh?

Anyway, Thursday we had a meeting with a local cop, I think he was, or at least he does something in law enforcement. We taked about being safe in the city and what not. Some interesting things I learned is that you cannot have a sharp object on your person with the intention of using it as a weapon; so, for example, if I happened to be talking to a friend about how I have this pencil in my bag in case I should need to stab a pickpocket or something, and a police officer overheard, you could be arrested. Also, I found out that our neighborhood, The Royal Burough of Kensington and Chelsea (officially), is the richest area in all of the UK. Crazy stuff. After the meeting, I had my Urban Anthropology class, which meets twice on Thursday for a grand total of four hours of the same class, how fun. And though there are 22 people in this house, only five of us are taking Urban Anthro, which means everyone else in the house has a four day weekend. Not fair.

Friday I walked to the Natural History Museum, which was neat.

My favorite exhibit was the human body, where they explained how your senses work and they had neat things to test your memory, and creepy giant fake babies.

Seriously though, this guy was huge. His feet were about the size of my head.

The earth exhibit was cool as well; they had this giant screen made up of many televisions and mirrors that told the story of the water cycle.

There was also a neat dinorsaur section, complete with an animatronic t-rex, which I took a video of for Sofia :)

Friday night a group of about six or seven of us went for a walk in search of a cool pub. On the way, we stumbled upon this guy in a reflective vest with his pants down 'round his ankles, doing pushups and jumping jacks while his friends/coworkers watched. It was rather funny and we gave him a nice round of applause. Eventually we found a pub called Bunch of Grapes; it was a cute little place that had a very chill atmosphere and it was surprisingly not that busy for a Friday night. http://www.pubs.com/pub_details.cfm?ID=157

Saturday during the day we went to the Portobello Rd market in Notting Hill. It was ridiculously warm out as well as ridiculously busy. But it was cool.

We also found a blue plaque for George Orwell, so that was exciting.

Well, that's all for now, but I'll try to do a better job of keeping everything up to date.