1, 2, skip a few....
Just kidding. We only skipped the boring stuff.
Happy Father's Day to Dad and Dad for last Sunday! :) We hope you had a nice day. We wish we were there to celebrate with you. Maybe next year.
Anyway, we had a busy weekend going places... We went to Greenwich on Saturday to see the Prime Meridian and walk around the area. It was fun and educational at the same time. ;)
Yesterday (Sunday) we caught the train to Reading (pronounced redding.. go figure) to watch the Socceroos take on Jamaica in a friendly international. It was great, there were 8050 Australian and Jamaican fans there. Australia won 2-1, so it was a relatively action packed game, for soccer. Fun. We saw 'arry Kewell and Viduka. Kewell scored and set up another one.
Anyway, we have some pictures today of the British Museum and walking around the National Gallery (no photos inside :( ), Trafalgar Square and walking over the Millenium Bridge (it's not called that, but that's what we call it) and around the London Eye.
Enjoy!
One of the side entrances to the British Museum
Some huge totem pole. There was a story about the figures on it.. It was something involving a strict mother, her son and a whale. Can't quite remember it, but the son basically got annoyed and went to live in a whale's belly for a while, and eventually the whale was killed by the villagers, and the guy came out and everyone was shocked. Or something.
This guy has been dead for about 3000 years. Impressive.
More mummies from Egypt. Their collection is .. massive. I'm sure that most of it is probably in storage.
Tram and some mummies.
So Paul's head isn't as big as everyone thought it was.
The newly built dome in the British Museum. It's beautiful, you have to be there to get a feel for it. It's massive...
Trafalgar Square and Nelson's Column. Lots of people are here on Saturdays, but the number doesn't go down much, ever. Even in the middle of the night.
The front of the national gallery. No one worth of a portrait in this photo though.
Fountains are nice
London Eye
We managed to take this photo before the security guard told us to put the camera away... This is a sculpture that looks incredibly real. We thought he was a real person for a while. This is at Tate Modern, a gallery just behind the london eye. There is a free section that we looked at, and one day we'll get around to checking out the .. expensive section. The free bits are very interesting, so inside is probably a lot better.
Another panorama of the view from the bridge... Not perfect, but getting better.
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Hi guys, thanks for getting up to speed with the pics and what you have been up to.
Talk to you again soon.
Love Dad
Posted by: Dad | September 11, 2003 08:01 AM