ANDREW AND I HAD SO MUCH FUN IN LONDON TOGETHER

HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY

Here are some things we did:

• ate at Borough Market
• went inside some old churches
  
• walked on the Millenium Bridge
• saw a lot of surrealist art at the Tate Modern. There was also an exhibit on the main floor that was literally a giant crack in the floor.
  
• ate Indian food on Brick Lane
• saw the London Symphony play Mahler's 4th Symphony
• went to Amsterdam on a plane!
• explored Hampstead Heath and a lot of London's other green spaces
• went to the places where I interned
• saw some weird body parts on display at the Royal School for Surgeons
  
• went to pubs!
• celebrated new years on The Strand
• saw the Mayor's Parade on New Year's Day which was full of American marching bands and American cheerleaders
• went to a lot of cool museums
• made friends with waterfowl in St. James' Park
  
• SMILED:

Mom in London and Santa in the radiator

My mom came to visit me in London and we had so much fun! She worked through her jet lag with great tenacity. On her first day in this time zone, we saw the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum, and she got to meet my coworkers at the Livesey Museum. The next day we headed to Edinburgh (pronounced something like Eh-din-bur-uh) on a train called The Flying Scotsman. We stayed in a room above a cool pub called the Bank Hotel They gave us free breakfast which included HAGGIS!! Haggis isn't so bad if you don't think about the ingredients. It just tastes kind of livery and has a slimy texture . . . but it's great! We learned about Scotch Whiskey, saw multiple Christmas Markets, took a walking tour of the city, shopped around, and ate at a good vegetarian restaurant!
When we got back to London, we did some more touring around and soon enough, Christmas arrived along with presents from SANTA CLAUS for both me and my mom!!