Book of the Dead Exhibition + Our Private Life!
Our Private Life + Book of the Dead! a photo by little_ribbon on Flickr.I'm back from hanging out with slowdead and eagleeyes84 in London~! ♥!
Pffft! O___O! It was pretty exhausting? I'm still on antibiotics for a kidney infection and feeling a bit wobbly in general... also, I wasn't the only one not feeling 100% healthy - so it was a rather challenging trip! Mostly because we had to rush about from one sight-seeing-opportunity to the other in order to do all the stuff we were interested in? *laughs!* B-but, we had a lot of fun despite all that!
Our Main Mission Objective~! was to listen to Bradley James' voice at the British Museum - he voiced the Family Guide to The Book of the Dead Exhibition! - and to watch Colin Morgan in Our Private Life. MISSIONS = ACCOMPLISHED, BUT ONLY BARELY.
We had an appointment for the exhibition at the British Museum at 2 PM for which we were nearly late due to eagleeyes84 and I wanting to see Platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross Station (WHICH THEY TEMPORARILY MOVED ELSEWHERE SO IT WAS VERY HARD TO FIND?) and us needing to drop our luggage off at Saint Jim's Hotel first. B-BUT, WE MADE IT. ONLY TWO MINUTES LATE.
The exhibition itself was amazing... b-but, I have to admit I thought it was rather crowded? It was very hard to see most of the things because there were so many people cramped inside. O.o; In the end, we just sat down on a bench and listened to Bradley James tell us all about the ancient Egyptian spells (with some entertaining Merlin references!) and watched the images on the little screen of the listening!device instead of actually walking around and listening to each number one by one. Unfortunately we weren't allowed to take pictures inside - understandable but still a bit disappointing. (I'm a lot like Ritsuka from the Loveless anime AND NOW I'M ALL "NO MEMORIES FOR ME? :(!" LOL!)
We still had time to visit the Museum Shop, Forbidden Planet, Covent Garden (Build-A-Bear Workshop, yay!), EAT DINNER!!!1one! and make a quick pit-stop at the hotel hotel to change into something slightly nicer before it was time to head over to the theatre for Our Private Life! The play was not my thing at all, b-but I enjoyed it quite a lot anyway? It was a very interesting experience! There were only 5 or 6 rows to sit on and it was a veeery small stage/room/whatever? We sat on the second row while we tried to avoid making eye contact with the actors, haha. SLIGHTLY AWKWARD BUT VERY INTERESTING TIMES, YES.
I made a new friend after the play, too! Welcome mrs_leary! xD! It's always nice to make new friends~! Especially with other Merlin fans? ♥!