So, I awoke at 5:30 and dragged myself about, attempting to get ready, and went on my laptop to charge my iPod up completely ... and watch Tobuscus. XP Then I left at 7:15 and began my journey to the train station. :-)
Then I finally got on the train at 8:00, rush hour. -.- It was quite busy but not too bad. :-P At least I got a seat! :-)
After 20 minutes I arrived at the station and walked to college. :-) Unfortunately, I walked up the wrong road, got very confused and lost, ended up going a really long way, and turned up late. -.- I quick marched most of the way, and when I did arrive I was so worn out I could hardly say 'hello' to Jessy. :-P Annoyingly, it didn't matter that I was late, so all my worry had been for nothing. -.-
At about 8:50 we boarded the coach ready to leave at 9:00. :-)
We drove and drove and drove until we reached Fleet Services, where we stopped for 20 minutes. :-) Jessy, her friend Chi and I went to Waitrose, where they had the widest range of sandwiches I have ever seen, :3, and then sat in KFC to eat. :-) Then we tootled off back to the coach. :-)
Then we drove and drove and drove some more until we reached London!! XD
It was so amazing!! :-D We were really high up and there were loads of giant buildings everywhere. :-D It was so cool! XD Then we went along a bit further until we got to another part of London where some houses were. :-) Then we saw some shops and this amazing advert for Super Mario 3D Land, which was literally 3D!! XD It had a giant 3D Nintendo 3DS as well, which was awesome!! XD We all sat there gawking at its majesty for ages while we sat in traffic. :3
Then we drove on through London, past Earls Court where I went to MPH 08 and saw Top Gear Live. :3 Then we got to Harrods ... Just wow ... It was so amazing! XD It had been decorated for Christmas, and just wow ... again :3 ...There were these huge bushes all along the shop with twinkling lights in them and each window was beautifully decorated with white trees and mannequins and all sorts :-) It was so lovely :-D
Then after driving for a bit longer we went past the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum!! :-D It was so exciting!! :-D I felt compelled to tell Rachel of course :3 I thought we were going to both, but it transpired we were only going to the Natural History Museum. :-P I really like the V&A so I was pretty sad, but it's fine. XD
We drove a bit further until we reached the car park. :-) After a short health and
Right, where was I ... oh, yes, so I was hopping about waiting for the rest of the Graphics people, and then when we were all off the coach our teacher told us we would be "walking a mile that way to the Natural History Museum" :-P Ack, walking! D-: But this was good walking; we were walking through LONDON!! XD I was very excited.
So we set off, out of the car park and left and then left again down a massive road where a lot the embassies are. :-D This was very amazing as all the building were huge, naturally, and we had fun finding out which country each building was for. :-) Ryan managed to convince me that the largest building was the American embassy, but it then transpired that he didn't really know and the building was actually apartments. :3
We reached the end of the road and then carried on to the Museum. :-) When we started approaching we were told to take photographs of the outside, so I now have a bunch of photographs of the Natural History Museum covered by trees. :3
I do have some decent ones as well. :-)
Then we had a chat about when we would meet and stuff, and went in. :-)
Oh. My. Rowling. It was amazing!! :-D The first room was huge, and had a enormous dinosaur skeleton in the middle! :-D It was so fabulos!! XD
My friend grabbed a map, that she should have paid for, and we headed towards the dinosaur exhibition! :-D Wow, it was briilliant!! XD It was all so interesting! :-D
As we walked through we got to a part where loads of people were standing in line waiting for something, but we couldn't see what. :-P We waited for a while and the rounded the corner to see what everyone had been waiting for. :3 Wow, it completely took my by surprise! XD It was so scary! XD They had this ginormous animatronic T-Rex!! XD It was amazing, and so realistic!! XD We came in from behind and even that scared me! XD
Then we wandered about a bit more until we decided to go to the café. :-) I brought myself an apple and my friend brought a biscuit, but apparently it wasn't very nice, so she didn't eat most of it which was a shame :-P
Then we moved on to another zone. :-) We saw a whole variety of things, it was all so interesting!! :-D
As we were leaving one zone we bumped into our teacher who told us about 'The Pod' he had just been to and suggested we go there, so we did, and also suggested we go to Human Biology, but we never did. :-P He showed me this hilarious picture in this book he had brought which showed the human body in proportion to the amount of the brain we use to control each part, so it had a giant head with big lips and ears, and giant hands. XD It was really funny! XD
We took his advice and went to the Darwin Centre which contained 'The Pod'. :-D We found two other people from our class and went in with them. :-) To get into 'The Pod' you had to ascend in the elevator to the top floor, and then walk down 'The Pod' until you reach the end where you take the lift back down one more floor, to the exit. :-D
I though 'The Pod' was really interesting and contained loads of really pretty specimens, but the others didn't so we power-walked through. :-P
Then we walked onward and found the rest of our group, besides our teacher, and went off together into a room which contained Art of the Natural World. :-D This room was especially nice as I study Art, as you may know, so it was nice to see some art work. :-D We stayed in this room for ages, messing about, until we left and bumped into our teacher. We still had quite a while left, and because one of the people hadn't seen the giant blue whale, our teacher suggested we go and show him.
So we went back to a room we had already been to, which I haven't told you about, which contained loads of life size animals. :-D
It was really cool, and after showing the person who hadn't seen the room we moved onto somewhere we hadn't been yet.
We found a room in this zone which looked pretty boring on the outside, but when we walked in there was a giant squid hanging from the ceiling! XD It was so huge, and Ryan immediately decided it was his favourite part of the museum. XD
We messed about for a bit because we were the only people in the room, until we left to go to the café, where we stayed until we met back with our teacher to leave.
I thought the museum was really interesting and fun, but everyone else could only muster an 'alright' when asked what they thought. :-P
Some other stuff I forgot to mention: We went into a room where the floor moved back and forth to mimic an earthquake, which was hilarious, and we went into a room which contained a huge, iron model of the Earth, which you entered by ascending and escalator, which was awesome! XD
Yes, so after we met with our teacher we walked back to the coach, back along 'Embassy Road of Destiny', as Ryan called it, and arrived back really early, before everyone else. :-) We waited for the Textiles students to return, and when they did a register was taken that revealed a few people had not returned. :-/ We waited a while and then found two girls had got lost in Hyde Park :-/ We waited for an HOUR while our Art teacher and the coach driver went to look for them. :-/ This meant rather than leaving at 3:30, we left at 4:30, which added an extra HOUR AND A HALF to our journey -.- This meant I missed the train I was hoping to get, and the one after that, so the next train I could get home left at 8:00 -.- This annoyed me, as it meant I would have got home at 9:00, but I called my Dad and found he was able to pick me up from college. :-D I had already walked to the train station though, and then had to walk back to college as Dad didn't know where the station was, but it was fine ... think how much exercise I got!! XD
So I got a lift home, yay, and thus concluded my trip to the Natural History Museum! XD All in all, it was a pretty awesome day out, and I am now even more excited to go to the Tate Modern with my Art class! XD
Yes, we are going to the Tate Modern, in London, on December 5th!! XD It is going to be so amazing because we are doing a workshop with someone from the Tate!! XD I cannot wait!! XD I will no doubt blog about the trip, so you have that to look forward to! XD
Aha, I just read Rachel's Blog and she mentioned how I am "such a loyal Tobuscus fan [I'm] doing [my] English project on him, how lol is that". XD It's true, I am doing my English project on him, I am addicted! XD Freakin' love Toby Turner! :3
Now, one last thing ... I HAVE A CAR!! XD OH, YES!! XD My Mum gave it to me! XD You see, her car broke and she had to buy this Rover, which I now own, to get her about until she got a new car, and when she was done with it she gave it to me! XD I'm so happy and I cannot wait to start driving!! XD I'm doing a week intensive course in the summer holidays ready for University. :-D So excited!! XD
That's about it for now,
I thank you,
Love Sarah <3 xx
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