Love Never Dies.

Today, like most days in London, was awesome!

First of all, I slept in. Is there a better way to begin a day than that? It was marvelous. Then we cleaned up around the room. PS - here is our room! We call it, "the penthouse" because it is up on the top floor (83 steps to be exact).

My roommates are so happy I put this up, I'm sure.

Next we went off to Leicester Square to figure out what show we wanted to see today. I will tell you what we ended up doing in a minute. After that, we wandered over to Camden Market. Apparently there is some good stuff there...but we didn't really find it. As my roommate, Niki, says, "I felt like I was in Tiajuana!"

Then, after leaving Camden Market, we headed over to the British Museum to see the Parthenon Frieze for a class. It is so cool to see all these things, and it makes me wonder what has happened to them to damage them.

Also, in the British Museum was the Rosetta Stone! How cool is that!?! We found it was nearby where we were, so we went to find it. We couldn't find it after searching and searching. Come to find out we had been passing right by it! I have no clue how we missed it right in the center of the room surrounded by people! It was way cool to see too. The picture isn't so good, because the glass glared.

After the British Museum, we went over to the British Library to see some old Bible manuscripts for another class I am taking. We didn't have much time to spend there, but I will for sure be going back! It was so crazy all the things I saw. I saw original manuscripts and other things from...

Jane Eyre manuscript

Jane Austen manuscripts

Jane Austen's writing desk

Wordsworth Poetry manuscripts

Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway manuscripts

Handel's Messiah manuscripts

Oscar Wilde's manuscript

Beethoven's music

Beethoven's tuning fork

Gutenburg Bibles

Eadui Salter from Canterbury (from the 11th century!)

After we left the British Library we met up with a bunch of girls for dinner before we all went to our shows. Then I went and saw the brand new Phantom sequel by Andrew Lloyd Weber called, "Love Never Dies." It just barely opened a few months ago, and is only showing in London. It was seriously amazing. I started crying at the end of it. If you know me at all, you know that I do not cry in movies/plays. And this made me cry. It was so good. I wish I could say what happens, but I can't. It would ruin it, and you wouldn't believe me if I told you!