Friday, July 25, 2014

Day 19, Thursday, July 24 - final visit to London

On Thursday the 24th we took our final trip to London. The day proved to be a great one with temperatures in the mid-70s and plenty of sunshine. We had the usual morning routine; wake up at 7:30, make our way down to breakfast, then off to the train station. We first went to the Museum of Natural History where we saw many different exhibits. Some of the exhibits included were ones of Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace, general biology, dinosaurs, and many other different fields of study. From there, we headed over to the Science Museum. At the science museum we got to experience many cool exhibits as well.  My favorite of them all was the 3-d printer exhibit.  After touring around the museum for sometime we decided to have lunch at one of the little restaurants inside the museum.  Afterwards we went back underground, to Piccadilly Station. From there we rode to Lambeth North Station, where we got off and started our walk to the Imperial War Museum, which had newly reopened the previous week. The museum was very cool, boasting all sorts of facts and machinery to go along with it. We left for Southbank, an area right along the Thames River with many different cool stores and restaurants. Southbank was great. It was packed with people, right along the water, and seemed to be a very fun place. We had our dinner, then went straight to the play we were seeing: “Small Family Business” at the National theatre. The play was funny in some areas but a bit dry in humor. All in all it was a very nice day and a great note to complete our final trip to London.

 Back on the Great Western Train headed to London Paddington.


Again with Charles Darwin, this time at the Museum of Natural History,London.
Mr. Reid with Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.

London Museum of Natural History.
Development of steam engines exhibit.

Original model of DNA built by James Watson & Francis Crick in 1953.
Alex, Charles and William in front of V-2 rocket.



Lunch at the museum.

Back in the Tube.

Imperial War Museum.







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