London: Day Three
Okay so I'm a few days behind in posting about my London trip. You can understand. I'll continue to write an entry for each day, I'll just probably be finishing it after I'm back home.
Thursday I started out the day at the Natural History Museum, which is lovely but a little schizo. It's sort of half-and-half old-school nat-hist museum (with stuffed yaks and dioramas and skeletons and shit) and modern-style museum with creative displays and interactivity and an effort to organize the information better. Their dinosaur wing is really good, but one thing puzzled me. the whole thing seemed organized to move toward their famous T-rex which is apparently a big draw. I thought cool, a T. rex! And then when i got there it was...an animatronic. Really? Animatronic T. rex?
The earth science wing was all new and pretty jaw-dropping. It's a free museum but like most museums of its kind it was currently hosting two pay exhibits. One was about Scott's South Pole expedition, and the other was Animals Inside Out, basically the non-human version of that Bodies exhibit. I paid to go through that and it was totally worth it, the exhibit was jaw-dropping. They had an elephant. Without skin and partially exploded out to show all the muscular connections and bones and stuff.
After that I meant to go to Kensington Palace but got distracted and ended up taking a random bus ride out to Clapham and back. then I went home and changed to meet Marie for our theater evening. We saw "Misterman" with Cillian Murphy...it's a one-actor show. it was amazing. Then we had lots of sushi on the South Bank. I eat sushi all the time but I'd never eaten at a sushi bar with a conveyor belt. It was fun.
Thursday I started out the day at the Natural History Museum, which is lovely but a little schizo. It's sort of half-and-half old-school nat-hist museum (with stuffed yaks and dioramas and skeletons and shit) and modern-style museum with creative displays and interactivity and an effort to organize the information better. Their dinosaur wing is really good, but one thing puzzled me. the whole thing seemed organized to move toward their famous T-rex which is apparently a big draw. I thought cool, a T. rex! And then when i got there it was...an animatronic. Really? Animatronic T. rex?
The earth science wing was all new and pretty jaw-dropping. It's a free museum but like most museums of its kind it was currently hosting two pay exhibits. One was about Scott's South Pole expedition, and the other was Animals Inside Out, basically the non-human version of that Bodies exhibit. I paid to go through that and it was totally worth it, the exhibit was jaw-dropping. They had an elephant. Without skin and partially exploded out to show all the muscular connections and bones and stuff.
After that I meant to go to Kensington Palace but got distracted and ended up taking a random bus ride out to Clapham and back. then I went home and changed to meet Marie for our theater evening. We saw "Misterman" with Cillian Murphy...it's a one-actor show. it was amazing. Then we had lots of sushi on the South Bank. I eat sushi all the time but I'd never eaten at a sushi bar with a conveyor belt. It was fun.