I see London I see France.....

Sheesh, so much is packed into so little time. Honestly, I can't even believe how times flies. All of us have become such good friends and it feels like we've known eachother for soooo long.
Ok well, time to get down to the nitty gritty: First of all, British Library. A WAY cool place to be. I didn't have a ton of time, so I didn't even get to really go through the "treasures" room for as long as I'd have liked, but I did spend some time in a photography display. Cameras have come a loooong way. But I still am true to my opinion that even though we have digital cameras and can take an unlimited amount of photos, I prefer just having the precious ones that I want to remember. Every time I put pictures on my computer I delete like half of them so that I just have the ones that mean something. Ok THAT was a wierd tangent. Anyways, I went to the British Library Treasures room, and seriously, they have some prreeeeetty good stuff in there. I didn't even get to stick around for long, but what I did see was as follows. Eh hem. The original copies of: A horn concerto by Mozart. A violin sonata by Beethoven. Something by Mendelssohn. And Betethoven's tuning fork. And A copy of the music from the first performance of Handel's Messiah. All of these were in the composer's real handwriting. Isn't that cool? I think it's really incredible. Also they have a Beatles display. Which i LOVED. I thought of my lovely bff Denise the whole time. They have the lyrics to some of their songs from when they first wrote them. Like... "Yesterday" was scribbled out on a piece of paper in Paul McCartney's handwriting, with some lines crossed out and some words changed, I think that stuff is SO fun to see. They had "Help" and even some unpublished songs. I actually spent forever staring at the Beatle's handwriting. Why it amazes me so? I have no idea. I also thought it was funny- it said that "Hard Day's Night" was written by Ringo on the back of a birthday card for his son. Apparantly he wrote it during his son's birthday party that he spent all day at. Isn't that funny? ah, yes. Yes it is. Another thing they have is Shakespeare's first folio of all his plays. Prrrrty neat!
Ok enough of that. I went and saw Oliver the musical, which was fun since I just read the book. The book was much better, but I did like the play too. I never really realized till now how even the really cute happy songs in the play have really sad connotations to them. Like, "I'd do anything" is actually quite heartbreaking. But yes, I really liked it.
We found a new frozen yogurt place: FROG. I love Frog. I love it I love it. I'ts on Queensway just above Whitley's... just for a future reminder. (I will be back)
Ok next up, today we went to Dover and Canterbury. That MIGHT not seem very cool to you, since I'm pretty sure most people don't know what either of these places are. BUT remember all the homework I've been doing? It has made me learn lots about Canterbury. Therefore it is really cool to go to Canterbury. Basically, Canterbury Cathedral is the Temple Square for the Church of England. Thomas Beckett was murdered in the cathedral for standing up for the church, (Murder in the Cathedral- T.S. Elliot) and so thousands of Anglicans made pilgrimages to visit this sacred place (Canterbury Tales- Chaucer). Unfortunately, Henry III destroyed the Shrine to Sir Beckett, and removed and destroyed his body, because he wanted to use the cathedral for the Church of England which he started.(Have I ever mentioned that Henry III destroyed and removed everything in this country? Jerk.) We also visited St. Augustine's Abbey, (or the ruins of it thanks to Henry), but the ruins were actually SO fun to play on. We all went crazy, it was like a big kid playground... of ancient ruins.
Dover was really fun. Dover castle was put to good use during World War II, the underground tunnels were used for the soldiers because it's right by the Ocean. They had a room with the doctor's stuff, and a kitchen, and all the radio rooms, it was really cool. We got a tour through the secret tunnels and learned about the secret missions and sad medical stories of the soldiers. The poor people men and women were in awful conditions. It's so sad what war makes people go through.
The white cliffs of Dover are very big... and white.... one of the natural wonders of England! Right underneath the castle, and you can totally see France from there. Here's a picture of me looking at France. You know you like it.