This day started out really hard for me. It was one of those days when nothing was going right. It was incredibly hot in our flat and I kept dropping stuff and hitting my head and other body parts on everything in the tiny thing we were staying in. I just felt trapped in this tiny place and felt like we lingered in the morning and it didn’t feel very good. London felt confined, too many people, no one caring about anything but themselves. I wanted out and really wanted to be back in Germany. I wanted out so bad that as we left that morning we were seriously contemplating hopping on a train or plane to Dublin for the day. It was a hard start to the day, but things got better.
Off we went to explore some more things. The first stop on the journey was Kings Cross because we had to see platform 9 ¾!! After that we went to the British Library to see some of the most famous things on paper. It was very fascinating seeing all the really old bibles. Some pages were there that even dated back to the 1st Century. Also there was the Magna Carta, some original Beatles lyrics and some original stuff from famous authors like Ian Fleming, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. My favorite part was seeing part of Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebook and an original Gutenberg Bible. After that and after looking up logistics for getting out, we nixed the Dublin idea and decided to go see a musical that night instead. So after some lunch we went and bought some tickets to Charlie and the Chocolate factory.
Before that though we went on a tour of the huge and amazing British Museum, again, so much history in one place. We took lots of picture of the great things we saw. It was totally worth it to pay a guide to take us around because we would have easily gotten lost or not understood the significance of things. Items from Ancient Greece, Egypt and Mesopotamia really stood out. Too much to describe in words! Crazy how skilled these people were using chisels to design amazing realistic figures!
Then it was off to theater for some fun and time away from our tiny living situation. I was worried that the musical would be too young for us or too much like the movie or book, but I WAS WRONG! Such an amazing show! Everyone in it did such a great job. Charlie and Wonka stood out to us for their performances. Which makes sense; they are the leads in the play. The one thing that I did notice is that everyone up on the stage looked like they were having the time of their lives. From the kids to the older actors, they were having fun! You couldn’t tell whether they had done this every night for knows how long; they just loved what they were doing! This got me thinking, if this is amazing, how good is Les Miserables going to be in a couple days!
Getting out of the flat helped, but we needed to keep doing the same to prevent the feeling of being crushed.
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