28. The Circle of Life
Wednesday here in London has been a glorious day. The sun has been shining constantly. We started the morning out with a little walk around the Kensington/Chelsea neighbourhood. It turns out there seem to be a lot of embassies in this area. Almost all of the buildings around here are white and many of them on our walk had really interesting doors. Some carved wood, others painted. Each one unique in its own way even though all of the walkups are like row housing (sorry, I don’t know what the proper architectural term is for this kind of housing).
We made our way over to the Science Museum which is another free museum. We were under a time restraint with some other plans but we spent a fun two hours. It’s an incredibly interactive Science museum. We started out with a special exhibit about the Energy and Power of Music. It was an interesting and educational look at what music means to us, the psychology of music, why we like the music that we do, how we’ve made music over the years and how it makes us feel. There was even a dancing screen that showed all of our dance moves through a series of lights. Even David got into this which is really saying something. The next large exhibit was all about Engineers. It gave a history of all of the different types of engineers and let us try out digital engineering projects. David got full marks for his participation in these exhibits. He was very successful at moving a boulder from the ocean into a crane. The intent of the exhibits is to encourage people to take up a career in the field and to learn all of the different options open to them. There were a lot of career related exhibits where you could enter in your traits and interests and then it would tell you what type of a technician you might be good at. David came up with a high interest in being a Wind Turbine Technician. Mine was a Dental Hygienist? Go figure?? There is also a really big exhibit on Medicine and all of the different medical related jobs you can do. The final exhibit we saw was a Flight and Aviation History Exhibit. It really is an excellent museum.
We didn’t have time to go to the Natural History Museum but they are doing extensive outdoor landscaping renovations and there was always a really long lineup of people waiting to get into this museum. It’s currently focusing exhibits on National Wildlife Photography as well which was supposed to be really good.
Then we made our way over to the Lyceum Theatre so we could take in The Lion King. Except we kind of got turned around and a bit lost so had an extra 30 minutes of walking we didn’t really need to do. We got there in plenty of time, because we are always early, and it was an excellent production. I was very excited to see the performance. I love the music and it did not disappoint. But the most interesting part of the whole musical is seeing how they actually make the production come to life. Not to give away any secrets but there is a lot of incredible puppetry going on. The giraffes, the rhinos, and the elephants were so creative. It was a very full theatre with lots of school groups there.
We covered a lot of ground today in this wonderful city. We saw Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square, Seven Dials, Pall Mall (where there were lots of very fancy cars), and lots of parks (St. James, Green Park, and Kensington Gardens, and Hyde Park). On our way home we also ended up walking past Stornoway and ran into lots of people in formal attire, clearly coming or going to a fancy cocktail party. Men in tails, and women with big hats and fascinators. It’s also college graduation so we got stuck in the mix of the graduates heading out of convocation for Imperial College.
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