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I booked a day trip for Stonehenge and Bath for tomorrow. I am excited, it should be interesting. Unfortunatly today it rained for most of the morning. I waited until i was only a filmy drizzle, then disembarked on my first trip into London. I decided to see the Wallace Collection in Manchester square, and was quite happy to have a plan all figured out.

Then the direct line dropped me off in High Street Kensington and told me good luck finding Notting Hill. Then I got on the wrong bus.....


The wrong bus that went right in front of the Natural History Museum! Check it out!

Is it not a gorgeous building? The outside has lots of gargoyles on it, and it looks like a gigantic Cathedral. There are modern additions to it, but they are mostly in the back and can only really be seen from the other entrance. The bottom picture is what you see when you first walk in the doors. I could not get the dinosaur head in there as the crowd was too big, but it was amazing. The stair case at the back leads to two corridors that have thier own exhibits in them.

I don't know how well you can see them, but on the other side of the gigantic stair case they had an exhibit on apes and monkeys. They took primate skeletons and hung them from the ceiling as though they were swinging from the arches. On the other side was an exhibit on modern man and man's ancestors.

They had a statue of Charles Darwin at the top of the stair case before it splits into two more stair cases leading to different wings. They seemed to really like this guy, had an entire exhibit on him and everything.

This was part of their earth exhibit. They linked different part of the Earth's crust and creation to the statues there. The astronaut talked about space rock and how it differs from things found on Earth. The sculpture had weird music and quaint British people trying to be dramatic asking "WHERE ARE WE GOING FROM HERE?!" The exhibit then went into volcanoes and predicting of natural disasters. All rather interesting. They had entire displays of minerals, and even some cut diamonds and meteorites.

Downstairs they also had cases of taxidermied birds and animals as well as fossilized marine life. They even had this guy:

Three guesses as to what he is.

That is all for now, my internet card is running low. Until next time.