London Day 5

11:50 PM August 21, 2011

Went back to Victoria and Albert Museum today. The exhibit I wanted to see, history of fashion, won't reopen until spring next year :/
It's a lot of design exhibits, ranging from theater, furniture, ceramics, etc. They also have statues and paintings and such. I did enjoy the theater and performance exhibit which shows the techniques and methods of how a show gets produced. They had a Kylie Minogue's dressing room and a costume Mick Jagger wore and costumes from Lion King and set designs.

Afterwards, we were going to go bike riding in Hyde Park. The bike sharing system in London is fairly simple, it's the actual acquiring of the bikes that's difficult. The code locks are picky and the bikes are hard to get off the lock. After several frustrating tries, I gave up (Chelsea and Alvaro got their bikes already). I decided to walk and look for the Princess Diana memorial fountain and the Peter Pan statue. Found them both. The Diana fountain isn't actually a fountain, but like a small lazy river that runs around a small mound where you can dip your feet or walk along it. The Peter Pan statue was further away, but I found it (finally! Didn't find it 3 years ago). It's a pretty tall statue, but Peter himself is pretty small. He is portrayed as a young child blowing a horn.

Supposed to go to The Tower of London, but we missed the last entrance. It's not a big loss to me because I've been before. I just felt bad because Chelsea hasn't been. Oh well. Next time. But, we did wall across the Tower Bridge and that was cool.

Jack the Ripper tour was awesome! We took a tour stoic the area of White Chapel where Jack the Ripper murdered his victims. Obviously it's very different from what it was in the 1870s, but it'll always be a mystery who Jack the Ripper was. It was kinda scary because the tour was at night and all the info and places we saw were facts. And now I hope I don't get nightmares.

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