July 26, 2007
London, England
This morning my class partners came to my room and we worked on our project for a few hours, instead of taking the class field trip to the National Gallery because, after an online search, we decided that there was not much at the National Gallery that we could have used, and that we would get a lot more done if we just did our project by ourselves.
After working on that all morning, I met up with Julia, Freya, Allie, and Leah and we all did Madam Tussaud’s. I had never been to a wax museum before, and the only wax figure I can even recall seeing was Gustav Eiffel through some thick glass at the top of the Eiffel Tower. I was thoroughly impressed. Upon walking in, the first figure we saw was Napoleon…he looked so alive it was creepy. Then we were taken in an elevator to the top floor, where the first celebrities were Daniel Radcliffe and Julia Roberts. I took pictures with both. In that room were also Kate Moss, Madonna, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston (who I think was just moved across the room after her and Brad Pitt split), Tom Cruise, the naked chef, and several others. Then we went into a room with more classic actors: Robin Williams, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage. This room also had Spieldberg, Jacko, Charlie Chaplin, the Incredible Hulk, etc. Next we went down some stairs to a room with athletes, mostly English footballers like David Beckham and his compadres, but it also had Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, one of the Williams sisters. After this was the Royal Room, with the Qqueen, Princess Diana, Prince Charles and sons, and more. This room also had William Shakespeare, Albert Einsten, and some more of their type. The next room was filled with musicians, such as The Beatles, Brittany Spears, Robbie Williams, Justin Timberlake, etc. Britney Spears was interactive—her chest heaved. Then was a political room, with Bush and Blair posed next to each other. This room also had Hitler, Gandhi, and a host of others. Then we went down more stairs to the haunted exhibit, which was super cool. It is filled with real people trying to scare the heck out of you, and then at the end they have a little exhibition about executions and plagues and what not. Then we went into an exhibition about how was figures are made. After this, we got to go on the Madame Tussaud’s ride through London’s history, which took us on a 1,000 year journey through London. It was a ton of fun!! Then we walked through a hallway with Simon Cowell, and I tried talking to him but was disappointed that he was not interactive (I had heard that he shot insults out at people who sang to him). Lastly was a film about Stars, which was very short and not the best part of the whole trip. Anyway, I would highly recommend Madame Tussaud’s, even though it is a bit pricy. I loved it!!
I went back, made pasta of course, and also the rest of the garlic bread. I have also been taking pita bread and melting cheese and turkey inside and it is really good!! After dinner, I went running in the Royal Parks. After that, we had all planned on going out, until Lindsay and I discovered we had been ditched. The others failed to tell us they wanted to leave early, so we set out on a journey looking for them. We first tried the Loop, a bar/pub/club where the University was having a Karaoke night, and once we could not find them there we rushed to make it to Kavanaugh’s before the cover charge kicked in. We made it just in time, and of course we found the others there. We were at Kavanaugh’s until a bit after 2, and it was a ton of fun. I still wish that the band that entertained the first time I was there would come back, but the music really was entertaining and we had so much fun.
We took the night bus home, and then I went immediately to bed.
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