Snow, Snow, Snow

The last day we spent in London was fantastic!! It was my birthday, which was really quite fun to celebrate in London. The weather turned out to be wonderful, and we were able to enjoy the outdoors. We ended up not being able to see The Lion King because there were not that many tickets left, and the day was just too beautiful to not be outside. We went to Covent Gardens, which I found out after much looking, there is no garden. It was actually really funny and a nice suprise that it was a market. It kind of reminded my of the markets in charleston, but better!! There was a food festival call the Tastes of Ireland, a continuation of the celebration of St. Patrick's day. There were tons of vendors and Whitney and I ended up getting roasted vegetable bruchetta which was fantastic and so delicious. There were musicians on different corners playing irish music, it was so fun! Then we decided to go over to Russel Square before heading to the British museum. I love the little parks everywhere, it is such a peaceful spot to sit and take a break from the city. We had a little cup of coffee and some chocolate biscuits, and oranges before we headed to the museum. The museum was amazing!! Absolutely wondeful, the egyptian section was so interesting, they had tons of mosaics that were actually from the Roman period, they were so beautiful and well preserved. Oh and they had the Rosetta stone, which has been important in the process of decryption of hieroglyphics. |Oh and the Roman and Greek sections were also amazing, they had preserved wall paintings from Pompeii which were beautiful, though they were just fragments, you can imgaine the way these artists used these paintings for several different purposes whether it be asthetics or to create the illusion of more space. So interesting! My absolute favorite room was the 19th centure Victorian European room. It was filled with jewelry and tiles. This jewelry was so much more than just that, it was truly art. The amount of detail in each pin, or necklace was fascinating. I could just stare for hours and hours, wishing that these beautiful pieces of art could still be worn today! The tiles as well were so vibrant and intricate, all in all the museum was wonderful, we spent 3 hours there and really only saw about half. We didn't make it to the National Gallery, but its something to go back to London for. We took a flight this morning at 630, which means we were at the airport at 4. it has been such a long day! But we arrived in Dublin with snow falling arounds, it was beautiful, though it didnt stick and turned into rain 20 min later. It was nice having snow falling around you while you get off the plane. Dublin is great though!! So much smaller that London, definitely a different feel. Trinity is beautiful, the artictecture is so great!! Oh and St Steven's Green was beautiful!! The weather was quite cloudy and it was bitterly cold!! I mean freezing, I was wearing almost all my warm clothes and was still cold, but it was still nice to walk around. Merrion Square is also beautiful, it is another park. It is more closed in and doesn't feel open but you really feel like you aren't in the city when you are in there. Whitney and I ate lunch at a Pub and had fish and chips, it was actually delicious. We washed it down with Hard cider, mmmm. Havent tried Guiness yet, maby tomorrow. Dublin is great being so small, we saw pretty much everything today and decided to go to the south of the city tomorrow to the wicklow mountains and the countryside. It will be really refreshing to get out of the city and be in the country! Ireland is really beautiful so far and i cant wait to see more of it. Its just so beautiful and green!!