Last Day for my First Visitors

I stand corrected: It's Thin Lizzy with a y, like the band.

My visitors have (presumably) left by this point. It was great to have them here and sad to see them go. I'm sure Flat Stanley will miss having Thin Lizzy around too. Here they are with Matt in front of the Tower Bridge.

We had several aborted sightseeing attempts yesterday. We went down to the Tower Bridge and Tower of London, but decided not to go into either. Then we thought we'd see if we could go up in the 30 St. Mary Axe building, but they wouldn't let us. From there we headed to St. Paul's, but decided the admission price was too high (unless you're there for a service, you can't even go in and walk around without paying first) for that late in the day.

So we ended up at the British Museum. I love just walking into the British Museum. It's so beautiful. Here, Flat Stanley and Thin Lizzy (with some support from Matt) check out the Rosetta Stone. I learned that the Egyptian hieroglyphs consist of some phonetic components, followed by a picture. They had an example -- the word for cat is three phonetic symbols (which, together, make a sound like meow) followed by a picture of a cat.

After browsing through the Parthenon galleries, (this horse's head reminds me of The Godfather) we went to Chinatown for dinner before our second attempt to see some theatre in London. We were not plagued by power failure this time and had no trouble with our visit to the Criterion Theatre to see "The 39 Steps". Everyone enjoyed it, so I think it was a good choice after all.

After a week of beautiful weather in England (Briana was disappointed that she didn't get a chance to wear her new rain coat), the New Yorkers are heading home to a mid-April winter storm.