Well I thought I would tell you that I got my first test results back yesterday and....... 97% so not too shabby at all. The 4th of July came and went with little fanfare. There was supposedly a 4th celebration at Battersea Park - but they had problems securing some kind of approval for fireworks so that pretty much just didn't happen. Some of us had a BBQ Chicken Pizza delivered - we felt that celebrated America well :) London's Gay Pride festival and parade were that day so half of the city was shut down for the parade and revelry that occurred. So not much happened on July 4th except that.

This morning was another field trip excursion day. We spent the morning at the British Museum and the afternoon at the London Dungeons.
The British Museum was cool.... BUT we only had 2 hours to go through it. As you can imagine - that's hardly enough time for ANY museum. And the BM is AWESOME. Before I got here I already knew about some of the world-renowned Egyptian exists they had and some other timeless artifacts.
I did make time to explore the Egyptian rooms and saw soo soo many precious ancient Egyptian mummies and artifacts.
We also saw the Rosetta Stone - if you don't know what this is - look it up on Wikipedia. It was the stone that linguists and Egyptologists used to finally decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphs so they could read tombs and inscriptions. An amazing piece of human history. We also saw the Jade Turtle and the Crystal Skull (of Indiana Jones fame - yes it's real).





















We then went to the London Dungeon - which was paid for and Thank God - I would never have paid US $35 for it... and it wouldn't have been worth it. It's a trip down London's deep dark secret past with people like Jack the Ripper, Sweeney Todd and all of the executions and such that used to happen - you know - heads on stakes and stuff from movies. But it was 2 hours long and not nearly as exciting as we had all imagined. The most interesting thing about London Dungeons was the sign I took a picture of outside it - Humped Pelican Crossing. Yesterday we ventured out and I didn't have my camera and we saw a Humped Zebra Crossing.... I've got to figure out what those mean.... hmmmm





















Then we went shopping in a cool open-air market near the Dungeons and found a Christmas Shop - we then played dress up with wierd holiday hats - the HIGHLIGHT of my afternoon at least. The Museum was amazing but was soo soo rushed. It is free like ALL museums here so I'll have to go back and check it out another day.