We raced out of the door to visit a couple amazing museums just in our back yard, the Victoria and Albert museum and the National History Museum. The V&A had artifacts from all over the world, some of my most favorite pieces were the Greek and Roman sculptures. They had a little bit of everything. One of the most interesting parts of this museum is in the fact the very building that it is build in, it is a great mansion and castle. It is truly as beautiful as everything that is housed there in.
After at the National History Museum we saw an amazing display about the earth and the changes that it has experienced since the dawn of time. There were all kinds of informational exhibits from the earths core, to volcanoes, to earth quakes, and what causes each and how they work. They also had an extensive collection of minerals and rocks that are found in the earth. One interesting display was a 237 caret diamond. They also had an extensive exhibit of dinosaurs. Located in the museum is also an amazing exhibit about the Charles Darwin research lab that is on site. Over all it was way cool.
We ended up outside headed toward Leicester Square to get tickets for the opera Madam Butterfly. On the way there we got caught in the most torrential rain storm i have seen. It wasn't raining that fast but the rain drops were the size of ice cubes. I was soaked in seconds. It was so cool!!After getting socked we ended up at Leicester Square. There we got tickets and wandered around the area looking for a good place to eat. I have never seen a cooler place! Amazing shops line the streets! We decided to eat at a little pizza place called Pizza Express, it really was a lot of fun! However, i thought i was going to die from heat stroke as i changed into pants and shoes in the bathroom in order to get ready for the opera. The pizza was great, it reminded me a lot of California pizza kitchen.
After dinner we continued to wonder around the area. We found the theater and movie theater square. It was so cool. There in the square is a tribute to the freedom of the people give by Shakespeare and his memory. In the same square is the coolest M&M shop i have ever seen. You can get anything with M&Ms on it! We also saw the red carpet for the movie premier of ILL. We wondered all through the area through shops and gift shops and stores. It was a lot of fun.
We then finished the night with Madam Butterfly. It the coolest theater i have ever seen. It was dedicated to the Coliseum. It was rich, red, ornate, and beautiful. The play and music were amazing! It was a deeply interesting play about an Americans affair in the culture of Japan. The themes were love, loyalty, tradition, religion, honor, and hypocrisy. One of the most interesting moments is when she blind folds her ~5year old son, he stands a little ways off, and she with her father's ceremonial and sacrificial blade kills herself as her son hold up the American flag and her cheating 'husband' comes over the hill just in time to see her last breath. It was a interesting moment, statement...as if to say the American dream, with its freedom: has killed her and her culture. And it has done so blindly, ignorantly. It was a powerful moment, and over all the singing was amazing, these actors filled the whole stage and the pit with their voices.
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