Slideshow - The British Museum Day 1

I finally got my slide show at the bottom of this thing to work. I'm pretty excited. Thanks, Mr. Everhart for the advice. By the way, Mr. Harry Everhart is one of my favorite blogs to read - a retired middle school science teacher who still has enough sense to post a great blog. He also writes for the Tallahassee Democrat. I enjoy his blog tremendously.

The pictures from the slide show are from my first trip into the Bristish Musuem. I'm sure that it won't be my last visit.

K. and I headed for our first foray into the British Museum. I was pretty excited, but nothing could have prepared me for what it is actually like. We walked up those huge steps, past the giant columns, (after meeting a couple from Murfreesboro, Tennessee who are celebrating their 30^th wedding anniversary. We went inside and I quickly realized I needed some sort of guide book. I found one with 15 self guided tours, and snapped it up. We began on the Ancient Civilization tour, so we turned left into one hall, and there it was, right in front of us – The Rosetta Stone. I wanted to just shove all the people out of the way so I could study it all by myself, without anybody else around. That did NOT happen, so I took my turn. I just wanted a few minutes to soak up the “ancient-ness” of it. I know that’s probably really not a word, but that’s the best way I know to describe how I felt. We saw plenty of other stuff, from huge chunks of Egyptian temples to parts of Ancient Grecian temples and then onto mummies. I actually saw the capstone of a pyramid, as well as a mummified foot, and a very nice selection of canopic jars. Pretty cool stuff!!!

After about an hour and a half, we were a bit overwhelmed. We left, and went on a walk looking for a post office to mail some things home. We found a post office, right past Russell Square, which is a beautiful little park. The Russell Hotel is gorgeous and across the street. In the middle of the park is a fountain with water just bubbling up and the pigeons were having a ball in there. The batteries in my camera went dead, so I tried to get some video with my camcorder. Those birds were so funny. It was so peaceful in the park, with hardly any noise except the sounds of the pigeons and the water bubbling. The grass is all so green (as opposed to home where everything was pretty dried up and dead when I left) and there are flowers everywhere. I find myself taking too many pictures of flowers, but the colors are just so bright and vibrant, and people seem to take such care with them. I'm jealous - I would be one of the poor windows with no flowers or just some dead stems sticking up.