Hello! Tonight I saw 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' at a theatre in Covent Garden. Covent Garden is really a lovely place for shopping ( a bit pricey but...) and it was lots of pubs which look really fun (if you make sure to go before 11p.m cause that's last call here). The show was put on by the Royal Shakespeare Co. and I really enjoyed it. There was some use of dolls that was a bit creepy... nuff said. The theatre itself was beautiful, we got sat in the 'Grand Circle' which is the upper upper balcony (where they stick students). While we were surrounded by British High Schoolers the view of the stage wasn't that bad. But I started my blog with the end of my day instead of the begining. After theatre class this morning, Racheal and I decided to get out and go do something. The reason being that the past three days we've been more or less trapped in the flat do "Britain's Great Freeze." It snowed, probably 6 inches or so between Sunday night and Monday afternoon and London (and England for that matter) shut down! They just don't know what to do with snow! They were saying that it hadn't snowed like this in 18 years! People were walking in the snow with their umbrellas, scooping up snow with trowels, posting weather warnings! All of us Midwesterners just smiled, knowing we'd left at least three feet of snow back in the states. So, because of that, Rachael and I went to the British Museum! We saw the Rosetta Stone, parts of the Parthenon, Mummy's..... The British Museum is just so vast! The Field Museum could probably fit in the British Museum with room to spare! We walked around for at least two hours and probably only say 1/3 of what was there. But what I love about London is that all the Museums are free! So I'll be going back! Well, off to bed with me. I'm going for a tour of Westminster Abbey tomorrow!
Cheers!
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