part two...read the previous post first!!

Ok, let's start out with the pic of the National Art Gallery. For those of you who are wondering, the art gallery is at the head of Trafalgar Square. The first time we were there I didn't even realize where we were.

We wanted to see the whole thing, but it's absolutely enormous, and when I got in there and started reading all the little plaques that go with each piece I realized I would have to either not read every one or read faster, or something, or we were never going to get out of there. We actually only made it through about 6 or 7 of about a million rooms. Then we decided not to over do it, and we would come back again another day. It was neat to see paintings from like, the 1500's still in perfect condition. Amazing stuff. And it was amazing too how the artists created paintings of images from the past (mostly about Christ and Mythology) but they also used aspects of their present day. One that really stuck out to me was a painting depicting John the Baptist preaching to a crowd, and they were all dressed in Reneciance period clothing (sorry about the spelling). I said to Ryan, "I am pretty sure that the people that John the Baptist preached to weren't men wearing bright red and yellow tights." All in all the art gallery was fantastic. We will have to go back and see more, but since it's only a couple of bus rides away (which are free with our bus pass) and admission is free, it won't be hard to do.

After we left the gallery we walked up the road and went part way across the Waterloo Bridge. From there we got quite a good picture of Big Ben, the Parliment Buildings and the London Eye (big ferris wheel thingy). We were stopped by a couple who asked us to take their picture, which we did, then we asked another person to take our picture, and she didn't even get any of the sights in the picture!! We tried to do a self-portrait, but that didn't work out too well.

Ok, sorry but you aren't getting any more pictures!!! This is kinda frustrating!!

After the bridge (or maybe before? I don't remember) we walked around to find the theatre where "Stomp" is playing. We had heard it was really good, and we wanted to see it the week of our October break. We had looked online this morning, and when prompted to buy tickets online they said they were unavailable, so we walked over just to see what was up. Long story short, we have tickets to see Stomp on Oct. 26th. Third row, middle. Fan-friggin'-tastic!!!!! So that is our big plan for the break. That and maybe travel up north of the country on one of those guided tour things. We still have to look into that one.

I hope this is satisfying your need for me to blog more often. Now you all have to keep your side of the deal and leave lots and lots of comments!!! I look forward to them!!

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