The day started off pretty normal for a trip out, I got up, washed, changed and gobbled down some breakfast in the typical teenager fashion of I really can't be asked to get out a plate so I'll just butter my bread on the countertop (and then get shouted at by my parents for getting crumbs everywhere - parents hey!). Then I left the house and walked about 15 minutes to the station. I planned to get on the 10:03 and meet my Granny on the train because she gets on a few stops ahead of me (that's where she lives).
However, when I got to the station, I noticed that the train had been cancelled - oh no! Duh duh duh....so I took out my phone to text my Granny but she had already texted me saying 'train not working. driving to your house' actually, that's wrong because she doesn't know how to put full stops or any kind of punctuation into a text - trust me it was hard enough covering how to switch the damn thing on and off! So I walked back home. Then my Granny arrived and we walked to the station - so I'd done a good 45 minutes of walking before I'd even got into London!
We got on the 10:33 and then the tube to Tottenham Court Road (northern line, black) and then changed onto the central line (red) to St Paul's - the exhibition was at the Museum of London). I have to say, I was shocked to see the state of TCR station - broken tiles, horrifically dirty and claustrophobic...:(
We stopped off at 'Pod' for a coffee and then went to the exhibition - wow! It was truly stunning! The pieces were so well preserved - I was astonished! The best part was that they gave you a little history of the area and of jewellers and stuff before you go and see the jewels so you have that in the back of your little pea brain and then inside, there are loads of portraits of people wearing jewellery almost identical to the ones in the exhibition so you could reference that and imagine how the pieces would have looked on. They also had periodical clothes to reference and some interactive video thingys.
My favourite pieces from the exhibition were this emerald salamander (only about 1cm long) and the intricate emerald watch (also tiny):
I'll give you a little bit of history another time - but for now, I'll just say that if you can and are living in or near London go and see the exhibition. It costs $8 a person but is well worth it!
After seeing the exhibition, we went to the cafe and had lunch. We then spend about an hour looking round all the other parts of the museum which is a chronological walk through different periods of London's history including the Romans, Tudors, Medieval, Victorian, World Wars, 1960s/70s and up until the Olympics. It includes specialist information on the Great Fire of London (1666) and black death... It's really targeted at children around aged 8+ and is great for studying just a particular period in history - it is very interactive and in some parts you feel like you actually in that period (dressing up, statues, walkways of periodical shops etc).
We then had a cup of tea and caught the 172 bus back to the station and went home! So a great day out!
Food: What did I have for breakfast..oh yes! Toast but if you remember I couldn't be bothered to eat it or even get it on a plate so I spread crumbs everywhere and then had to hoover.... :( then I had a hot chocolate and sausage roll for coffee and a ham sandwich with water for lunch (sooo boring!). For dinner I cooked (have to look after my mummy)- yes I've warned you about me cooking meals, cakes and milkshakes and stuff is great, but meals really aren't - steak and chips with peas and sweetcorn! So that was about it....
Weather: getting cooler but deceptively sunny
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