A day at the Museum

Lets see...where to start. Today I explored a whole new area of London. It was called South Kensington...home of the Natural History Museum and Science Museum. It was a cold gloomy day today so I decided to plan some indoor activities. My first stop was the Natural History Museum.

The building was beautiful (top picture). The first exhibit I walked through was the Dinosaurs. It was pretty cool to read all the facts and see fossils and stuff. I learned they lived 150 MILLION years ago and became extinct probably because the climate changed too fast for them to adapt to. I also learned the T-Rex has tiny arms that can't even reach it's mouth...hehe I liked this fact. It made me think of my sister, Molly for some reason.

After the dinos I walked through the human exhibit which contained information on how babies are born, how they grow, the brain, memory, and more. It was pretty neat. There was this tiny dark room you could walk in and it made you feel like you were in the mother's womb...that part kind of freaked me out! The final exhibit I went through was the mammel one. It was a lot of display cases of animals so it was kind of boring but I'm still glad I walked through it because I got to see my most favorite animal...the BISON! :)

Then I headed over to the next museum, The Science Museum! I was epecting it to be similar to the MN Science Museum but I would say the MN one is way better (and no, it's not because I am from MN). This one was super futuristic and stuff but I felt like it didn't compare in content to the one back home. The first exxhibit was space and atmosphere. I liked this one the best because it brought back memories of when my dad and I would go to the Science Museum when I was little and look at the solar system (he even bought me a solar system poster and those little star things to stick on my ceiling). Then it was the invention hall (I don't know the proper name but this is what I called it). It was full of things like the model t, the steam engine, supercomputers, and much more. It was fun to see all the stuff people used in the olden days...there was even a case that looked at how the cell phone has evolved...pretty neat.

The rest of the museum was kind of lame in my opinion. Everything else was just these interactive games/exhibits on computer screens so I got kind of bored. I hit up the museum store before I left but left emptyhanded...take a look at some of my favorite pics from the Science Museum!

This is an example of what astronaughts eat in space! YUM!

The "invention" hall

Motor Car (1895) 

This is the thing that would go on the top of the Lighthouse to create the light for sailors to know they were nearing land...land ahoy!

Model T (1916)

The black one is a Messerschmitt KR200 De Luxe (1960)

The red one is a BMW Isetta 300 (1961)

The green one is a Vespa 125 Scooter (1948)

Cray 1-A Supercomputer (1976)-the computer contains over 50 miles of wires!!!

Check out the huge gameboy on the right!! I miss that thing...speedy gonzalez anyone??

Fun cars!

This dress was made entirely from recycled issues of London's popular newspaper

So after the Science Museum (I felt very intelligent and well-educated today) I hit up Kensington Park. It was super cold but the park was amazing. I walked all over and found the Princess Diana memorial walk. There was also this really cool statute at the beginning but I'm not sure what it was for. Another thing I saw at the park was this crazy old man-he would run for about 20 feet, stop, and start practicing karate with himself. It was quite odd, but from all the sweat dripping down his back, it must have been a pretty good workout :)

Notice the man on the left-hand side in blue...that's the guy

Princess Diana

What you looking at SWAN!?



The day ended with myself stopping in a few stores on Oxford Street...I discovered my most favorite store in London today. It's called UNIQLO. It has super nice quality stuff for really good prices. I purchased a wool peacoatish type thing and a sweater...I think my parents might have to bring along an extra suitcase when they come in March...:) Tonight I think a bunch of us are going out to this bar called the Zoo Bar in Leichester Square...this time I am for SURE going! I will report to you tomorrow how it went:)

Signing off for the evening!

-Hale