Bryce and Leo Do Schwimmer 2005

My turn! Hello from my first Euroblog. I gotta make this quick so Leo can get on and tell you the dirty details, but I wanted to get my two cents in before he fills your head with his load of crap.

So we started the day a little later today and headed on an unsuccessful journey to Notting Hill. I mean, we made it to Notting Hill, but it was a disappointment (I think because we just didn't walk to the right place). We saw no market and no blue door and Allison Krause was not singing anywhere! So we took off through Kensington Garden on a LONG walk full of sights including the Princess Diana memorial, which is a strange circular waterfall that I don't really get, but the British people seemed to love it cause they were laying all over it. After walking the entire length of Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park without scoring Live8 tickets we went to view the stolen antiquities at the British Museum. The Rosetta hit us like a stone when we walked in, so we checked it out and then a bunch of other old junk, including some really really old pieces of rock that Leo flipped out over but that I think would be more at home in my driveway than in a musuem. The highlight of this trip, besides cute little uniformed british 3rd graders and Leo's handling of the donation bin, was the "Bog Man" and very well preserved human body from the first half of the first century. You can still see his hair! And his skin is like thick leather. After the British Museum we parted ways and while Leo went to a fake version of the Globe Theatre, I went to see the Cabinet War Rooms where Churchill and his boys hung out while Britain was being bombed nightly. It was a high priority for me on this trip and it was really cool, many of the rooms had not been touched since V-J Day when they left the place. They even found one minister's rations of sugar hidden in a desk 40 years later when they went to set up this museum. After that I ran to the National Gallery and was able to run through it in the last 30 minutes that it was open. It was a beautiful museum, I definitely want to spend more time there next time. Leo and I were to meet in front of the Gallery at 6:30 and it closed at 6:00 so I spent the next half hour walking about and I ended up back at Covent Gardens which is an market with street preformers that reminded me of Fanuel Hall (sp?) in Boston. I caught the very end of a juggling act that was pretty funny then I tried to make my way back to meet Leo. So now I'm lost and alone in the middle of London and I luckily stumble through Leicester Sq. where I see lots of theatre ticket vendors. I realized then that I could probably talked Leo into seeing a show as long as it was the Lion King and it was cheap. They advertised tix for 24 pounds, so I started to think up my ad pitch as I walked to meet him. He proved to be an easier than expected sell and we walked back to get tix. Of course as fate would have it The Lion King is dark on Mondays, so I tried to get tix to Guys and Dolls (starring Ewan McGregor)--Sold Out! Dangit, well everything else was too expensive and uninteresting to my less-than-cultured friend. So we went about our way to find something to eat and to check out Piccadilly Circus. When we got to the Circus (which had no tent!) we saw down the street the theatre for the play "Some Girls" starring David Schwimmer. Leo suggested we check it out and aren't I glad he did. We went and ended up scoring really good seats on a student discount (17.50 pounts). After we bought our tickets we had about half and hour before show time so we scored some Fish and Chips around the corner and took our seats. The show was actually really good, made better by seeing our second network all star in real life since we've been here (now we just need someone from CBS and someone from Fox and we'll have all the networks covered). We then hopped on a random double decker bus and took a ride to who-knows-where, but who cares, cause we were upstairs on a bus! We then grabbed some delicious Irish creme Ben & Jerry's ice cream and hopped the Tube back here to Mike's place. We met a wonderful british woman on the train (and by wonderful, I mean horrible sarcastic and bightingly rude anti-american, who came to love us!) but I'm sure Leo will tell you all about her. Ok, sorry this was supposed to be short, but it is not, now its Leo's turn to give you his take, but don't believe everything his says. Goodnight.
(sorry for any typing/spelling/grammar/factual errors, I'm not proofreading)