As I was walking to the train station I saw a dead fox on the sidewalk. I assume the fox got hit by a car and maybe they moved it out of the road or it got to the sidewalk and died. Anyway, it didn't like too gruesome except for the one eyeball that was popped out of the socket. Which was still pretty gross.
Made it to the train station without passing any other dead animals and headed to South London. I walked on the South Bank along the Thames passing by the Tate Modern, The Globe Theatre and the London Eye.
One of the great things about museums in London is that a lot of them are free. Well, they ask for a donation. But their form of asking for a donation is to put a box by the door and leave you to it. Not make you walk up to someone at a desk and tell them you don't want to pay the full amount. I guess I shouldn't care or be shy about paying what I want, but I do. I like that there is just a box there for you to pay what you want, or really not at all. It makes are so much more accessible. And they seem to be doing okay, doesn't seem like the Tate Modern will be closing any time soon (hint, hint MOMA!!).
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| Tower Bridge. Often mistaken for London Bridge. So I've heard, someone wanted to buy this bridge and asked to buy London Bridge, which they got, but it wasn't the bridge they meant, and now it's sitting somewhere in Arizona. |
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| The dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in the background. |
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| Shakespeare's Globe Theatre |
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| Screw the girl, that's Eddie freakin' Izzard. My damn phone had no battery and I would have been too nervous to ask for a photo anyway. |
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| Small skate park on the South Bank. |
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| Public toilet on the South Bank |
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| There was a South Bank festival happening. Lots of books for sale. I couldn't even allow myself to really stop. |
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| The London Eye and Thames River |
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| Big Ben...Parliament... Big Ben...Parliament... |
After walking along the South Bank, I walked over Westminster Bridge and eventually ended up in Chinatown and walked to Covent Garden.
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| Bar located in Covent Garden. |
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| The pub was crowded so I was sharing my standing table with a group of three. |
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| Performer in Covent Garden. The view is from the balcony of Punch & Judy |
So after walking around all day I went to the London Rockin' Rollers practice. I wasn't sure what to expect. I had contacted them to see if I could come to a practice since I was going to be away from my own practice for so long. And they asked me if I wanted to run the practice! I was surprised and flattered, but also a bit nervous when I got there. I didn't want the practice to be too easy or boring. I wanted people to learn stuff but also have fun. Everyone was super nice and I think the practice went well. I had a good time leading.
After it was over, I rode on the tube with a couple of the girls, then realized I had totally miscalculated where I had to get off. So had to backtrack a bit, which wouldn't have been too terrible, except I ended up running into one of the girls while I was checking a map and had to be like, "Yeah, I'm an idiot who can't read a map and didn't get off at the right stop." But it was okay because it was early enough that the tube and trains were still running and I didn't have to spend a ton of money on a cab or sleep in a hotel lobby (hello, year 2000). Got back to Tina's okay and hit the hay looking forward to tomorrow.
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