Museums and Fashion and Lambrini, oh my!

It is almost March! I can not believe it. These past two months have flown by and it kind of makes me sad :( There is so much I still want to do and I feel like I am not going to be able to fit it all in. This week I was looking through my calendar and I am going somewhere or have visitors until the last weekend in April slash my last weekend here.... so odd. My roommates and I booked our tickets to Prague for Easter weekend a couple days ago and I booked my ticket to Florence for the end of March with two other kids in my program who have a friend who is rooming with my friend Erica from Boulder... small small world.

Anywho, I had a pretty eventful week in London. Tuesday Meg and I went to the Natural History Museum right around the corner from where we will. It was HUGEEEEE and it is absolutely gorgeous. We only made it to two exhibits too in the 2 hour gap we had in between classes, the dinosaur and Darwin exhibits. Personally, I liked the dinosaur exhibit better. They had a life size T-REX that moved! I got the chills walking by it.  I learned a lot of things too that I didn't know... haha weird but true. The Darwin exhibit was pretty unique too because it was in what they called a "Cocoon" and we had to take an elevator up into this egg shaped section of the museum. Very different, that's for sure. I don't know what is was but I like this museum a lot better than the one in Chicago. Maybe it is just because it's in London and I have learned to appreciate museums more since I go every week in my History of London class. Either way I thoroughly enjoyed it and plan on going back sometime soon to go to more exhibits since we didn't even make it through half of them.

Then on Wednesday, me and this kid, Mike went to the Science Museum just down the street from the Natural History Museum to do a report for one of our classes. Now I expected this to be pretty great and im sad to say that I was not impressed. I think maybe it was because Mike and I were the only one's older than 10 there besides parents. Literally, we did not fit in at all. Most of the exhibits were hands-on and for 13 year olds and younger... this kind of through us off. I felt kind of bad too because we could pick whatever museum in London to do for this project and I made the executive decision to go to this one, purely because I am a science nerd and then it turned out to be a bust. Oh wellllll. We did end up going to the Science of Medicine exhibit and that was probably the only exhibit where little kids weren't running in. I felt at place here. This was really cool because they had different displays of the advances of medicine and surgeries for example in dentist, head surgeries, physiology, naval surgeries, etc. My favorite was the open heart surgery from the 1980s. We will be doing our report on these displays just in case any of you are wondering.... not the launchpad exhibit like I had hoped. haha