Big'un Today

Ended up going to London yesterday. We went to see a couple plays at the Globe Theater. And they were great!

Started the day off with leaving Oxford at 8 AM with the other OSAP students on a coach to London. The traffic was awful; it took 3 hours to get to our stopping point in London near Trafalgar Square. 

Lord Nelson, pip pip, cheerio. 

Some kind of cavalry something or another was going on, and that was slowing things down. We had a great guide, though, and he told us all sorts of facts about the various things we passed. Once I got off the coach,  I, of course, had to start off with a shot in front of the Thames.

Fantastic lighting. 

We branched off from the main OSAP group (who was going to see the Churchill war rooms. I'm kinda sad we missed that. But hey, Shakespeare! And, of course, we had to walk by Big Ben and Westminster Abbey. Good... TIMES.  GET IT HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

We walked a good distance and over a couple of bridges to get where we needed, so of course, I had to get another Thames picture. No Parliament building this time.

Just beautiful me. And the Thames. Eh.

We eventually got to the Globe, after crossing several streets with many an impatient driver (drivers are so mean here!). It was smaller than I imagined.

Still cool, though. Any building that is older than the country I am from is pretty cool by law. On the way to the Globe, there were many street performers, one of which blew massive bubbles with a huge bubble blowing device and industrial strength soap. It was cool, and attracted a lot of people. A lot of kids. It was silly, because later on when we were in the Globe, we saw bubbles floating over into the theatre. Here's the inside of the theatre:

We saw two plays: Antony and Cleopatra and Titus Andronicus. Titus was easily the more engaging of the plays, and the bloodier of the two. Antony was at 2 PM, and Titus at 7:15. We saw Antony, which need at 5, then went to find dinner. After stopping for a brief visit with Dr. Snyder in a nearby pub, we ventured on to the Gourmet Burger. Kitchen, where I got the Wellington burger. It had horseradish sauce, mushrooms, and some special mayonnaise on it. It was AWESOME. 

Titus was probably the bloodiest play I'll ever see. Hands chopped off, tongues cut out, peoples' throats slit... Fun stuff. Apparently, people have fainted at this version of the play. In the scene below, two people were being hung upside down to have their throats slit. Very cool play. Very engaging to the audience. Actors kept running through and pushing people out of the way, even touching some peoples' cheeks with fake blood to mess with them. I should have been down there, but I was a nitwit and stayed up in the stands!

Very cool day. Got a selfie with St. Paul's cathedral.

Until next time.