Times in London continue to be excelent. Thursday I enjoyed the British Museum for several hours while Evan perused a massive book store. I enjoyed Egyptian sculptures and mummies (including Cleopatra's), the Parthenon sculptures, and exhibit entitled "Sacred Objects of the Pacific", exhibits of Korea, China, and Japan (very cool folding tiger screens!), and a "Treasures from Bengal" exhibit. It was overwhelming, so I took down notes in the back of my sudoku book to remember some of the amazing artifacts that I saw. I'm slightly embarrassed to say that I walked past the Rosetta Stone without noticing, but there were huge kingly stone heads that distracted. I returned later to find it completely inundated with Korean tourists. Needless to say, I took a picture (of the tourists and their cameras).

Yesterday Evan and I straightened, no, cleaned the flat, then set off to Trafalgar for a lazy afternoon. We listened in on a practice for the Messiah at St. Martin in the Fields, and while there bought tickets to a performance of all Bach's Brandenburg concertos. We are very much looking forward to this performance which will take place next Thursday. After enjoying the practice, we spent some time in the National Gallery. We saw paintings by Manet, Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso, Renoir, Degas, Raphael, Da Vinci, Van Eyck, Michelangelo, Cezanne, and others. It was pretty fantastic.

To Ansley: yes, Hawaii. In a moment of excitement, we (we being Alan Newbold, Phil Gray, Tommy Poole, and myself, with a recent addition, Cody Lonning) bought tickets to Hawaii for the first weekend in February. Hurrah for rash decision-making.