Well,we have had and are continuing to have Internet issues here at the hotel. Double sigh. So these pictures are out of order, but we are having a wonderful experience! This is Pauline and Joanie looking at the pocket watches in the British Museum. What a place! I could easily spend a week there. We only had about 90 minutes before we went to see The Lion King, so really only made it to four rooms. The Egyptian Room (only about half of it) but we saw the Rossetta stone. There are lots more pictures, but uploading is also an issue. We also saw the clocks, currency, and a little bit of Greek history. They had mosaics from someplace in the stairways on the way down. There were at least four other floors we didn't get to explore. Cindy, I really wanted you to be here!!!!
The entry way into the British Museum. The lion above is from an ancient Egyptian city (my picture of the placard didn't come through).
This is Boccia ball at the Excel Center (not Olympic Park).
This is where we saw the Lion King. SPECTACULAR! The stage floor did almost as much as the stage at KA in Las Vegas.
This is for Hal...Regent Street near Picadilly Circus.
Before the play we had lunch at Charles Dickens Coffee House. It was tiny. The bathroom remined me of the tiny, non-handicapped conforming bathroom at that hotel in Arcata.
Picadilly Circus. An older style of tile work in the Underground.
Yes, Douglas, Oly and Ann, there is a whole, upscale store devoted only to Nesspresso. The flag is made of pods. In the picture below, those are thousands of pods behind the counter.
They ignored us at the tasting counter--little did they know we are serious Nesspresso machine owners.
Today, we had three day passes to the Excel Center, which is near the docklands in London. Tomorrow, Joanie and I are are going back for the 9 to 2 session of sitting volleyball. The players can have two legs and arms (or not), but everyone sits, six on a side and the net is about the height of a tennis court. The game is fast.
Today we also saw two gold medal and two bronze medal table tennis matches, a tiny bit of power weight lifting (a woman from Egypt set a world record), and the Boccia ball (the session we saw was the most physically impared we have seen).
We have seen very few American athletes in any sport besides basketball. In my 3 hours at track the first day I attended, out of 150 athletes, I can remember three from the US. We did not see any today. When we watch on TV at night, rarely is there anyone from the US. The US contingency in the Opening Ceremony was big, but we don't know where they are. In the medal table count, we are not in the top five. What gives?
Tomorrow we are going to meet Mom later in the day and take the the Big Bus Tour of London.
