London: Part 2

Hey Guys... How's the states? Still there, I hope. I've finished up London, and now it's off to Dublin. All in all, I'd say London is a decent town. A little too expensive for my budget, but a good place to start my trip. The last few days there have been pretty busy. After spending so much money to see The Dali Experience, St. Paul's Cathedral, and The Tower of London, I was definitely in the mood to explore London's sights that were more around my price range:... free. Fortunately, London has quite a few of these. Tate Modern was by far the most interesting museum I visited, with modern art and exhibits that make you think and others that just make you say "what the..?" The room with the sculped cleaning crew sweeping up paper cuts of people who are no longer useful to society was definitely sad and thought-provoking. The National Gallery had the original Monets, Manets, and Van Goghs of which I had only previously seen pictures. Lastly, I went to the British (Archeological) Museum where they have Egyptian mummies and other cool ancient artifacts. Check out the pics of them (if I ever get them up there... turns out it's pretty difficult to get my laptop connected to the Internet here).

I met a few people the last night I was there. We went to the bar owned by the hostel we at which we were staying. There was a guy named Janis from Latvia, a girl from Sunnyvale, CA named Kathleen, a guy from Columbia who worked at the hostel, and a whole bunch of girls from Canada (Rachel is the only name I remember). I was a good time. The weird thing is that you go out with these people knowing that you're never going to see them again. I wonder if I'll every remember them in a few years.... I hope so. They seemed pretty cool.