We went to 'The Cocoon' because it is really good. It is. IT IS HUGE!!!! Absolutely humongous!! You go up a huge glass elevator, up seven stories, and then (you are really high up) you are in a funny room with a whole lot of dead beetles. Lots of them, as well as plants. You could look through glass windows and see actual scientists working!!! Did you know-There are over 350 scientists working at the Natural History Museum? Random Fact of the Day.
Anyway, I did a game where I got to plan a ladies trip, she was going to catch "The fast and agile...Robber Flies". I succeeded, and I was going to send you a postcard from there (It was an email actually) but I couldn't put in who it was for because the touch screen thing went all crazy. It's the thought that counts, right?
So then we walked through The Cocoon some more, and some more, (Look! A scientist!) and finally found the way out.
We found ourselves in a room full of bottled specimens! It was really gross! And then, just as I thought it wasn't that bad, I found the ugliest thing-mi-bobby EVER! It was all white and decaying, its eyes were gone and I could see its bones/skeleton. The stuff around it (the preserving stuff) had gone yellow and it was just repulsive. So we left.
I haven't told you about the school groups. There was tons of them!!! When we waited in line, we had to wait ages, and ages and it was really, really boring. Or at least it would have been if the museum didn't have carvings of animals everywhere. It was just amazing. You can see that the museum was made for being what it is (does that make any sense?) because there are little gargoyles shaped like those flying dinos (pterodactyls, I think) and Saber Tooth Tigers and other little awesome things. When you step inside there are little animal carving everywhere! We were next to a lady, and she pointed to some forest animal in a tree and said "Look! A meerkat!". It was funny. Anyway, the entire building is just a huge artwork!! Talking of artwork, there is so much graffiti in London. It's not really artwork, though.Well, mum says some of it is now deemed to be art. Oh, wow. really off topic. REALLY off topic. Oh well.
So then we went to the red zone (earthy erosion stuff). There were statues of Atlas, Kronos, Medusa and a Cyclops! It was funny because Medusa was in stone and she turns people to stone...
We went through the zone and there was another school groups of miniature kids. The zone was AWESOME though!!
Then we went to 'The Vault' and in it was tons and tons (literally) of gemstones. Gold and diamond and opal and lapis lazuli (HI PIE!!! THAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MINECRAFT BLOCK!!!)
After all that we went to the museum shop because dad needed a book on British Birds. I got a necklace and I am worried it will break and send the Aquamarine crystals everywhere because we don't know what the string is.
Then we went for a 4km walk along the Thames. We saw St Paul's Cathedral, Tate Modern, the Tower Bridge, the Tower of London and lots more. After all that we went home!!
P.S I dedicate these photos to all of the people who used to live in the Britain (not Scotland yet!) just because I can.
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