Tuesday, July 22, 2008

England Day 2!

Hello everyone who's reading this blog! You may be wondering, what exactly is Shana up to? The answer is, she is traveling around the UK. And talking in third person, apparently. Anyway, we flew in Sunday night/Monday morning. We didn't actually sleep on the plane. And the hotel didn't have our rooms ready at first. So we gave them our stuff and wandered around London half-asleep. We hung out at the National Gallery and I entertained Mother with the stories that inspired the paintings. She hadn't known most of them. She says she's never had that much fun in a museum before. Clearly, they should hire me to write those audio tour thingies.

We attempted to explore the Tate Modern and the Globe Theater, but the first didn't have anything in the big room to look at and we were too tired to go up to look at the photo exhibits and such, and the second we could only go into with a tour. Or a play, but nothing was showing that wasn't sold out on the days we were in town. So we ate lunch and went back to the hotel. I read for a while, managing not to fall asleep mainly because Artemis Fowl is utterly AWESOME. I've said it before and I will not stop saying it. I love that series. I'm not sure how critically good it is, but damn, I can't get enough of it!

Then we went to the Mac store to get a converter for my power chord and ate dinner. At this point I was pretty much in a daze. We went home and I fell asleep pretty quickly at 8:30ish.

Then we slept for twelve hours. Well, on and off.

Today we wandered around Leichester Square and hung out in Forbidden Planets comic store. My mother wouldn't let me buy anything because it's cheaper in the US. Hmph, I say. Hmph! I wanted to buy a comic book in England! Blah. Then we walked back to St. James' Park and read and ate lunch in the grass. So many people were picnicing! I thought about Good Omens. We had ice cream. I'm leaving very soon to hang out in a flea market and hopefully get a new necklace. Then we're going to Spamalot! Hooray!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great posting! I am especially amused by your plans to make audio tours for museums. I am sure they would be, ahem, creative. In fact, here is a writing challenge for you...pick your painting or sculpture, from classical through impressionist, and write the Shana audio to go along with it...if you had a few I know someone who could help you put them into a nice slide show...

Have fun over there! I am jealous about Spamalot...

TD

Anonymous said...

love the sleepy wanderings,and can't believe you knew so much about the art. take me sometime!!

xoxo, auntie.

Anonymous said...

I love your descriptions! I feel like I'm there with you. Of course I never heard of Artemis Fowl. I'll check it out. Love you! Grandma F

Saranga said...

I should have visited here earlier. There's a much better comic store than Forbidden Planet in London and it's only 3 minutes walk away. Plus, Forbidden Planet is a corporate rip off. Don't feel bad about not buying anything, it's really a rubbish store.