Day 3 in London

Ok, back to London.

I was dying to go back to the Natural History Museum to check out the dinosaurs (I'm a huge fan) so that was where we spent the 3rd morning of our trip. I just love seeing and learning more about all the wonderful and fascinating creatures that roam (and used to roam) this amazing planet that we live in.

The Natural History Museum

There was so much to see but we had so little time, so we ended up only visiting the ground floor! Just enough to see the Dinosaurs, Fishes, Amphibians and Reptiles, Mammals, Creepy Crawlies and Fossil Marine Reptiles.

Check out the pictures...

Amazing huh?

Talk about weird 'before and afters'

Moving on from the museum, we went to Harrods and headed straight for the Food Halls. It was just amazing- all the tempting smells and wonderful colours makes one want to take a basket and buy everything within reach (until one sees the price tag :p).

Since I couldn't afford it when I was student; I decided that we ought to have lunch there. We sat ourselves down at one of the bar counters- the Rotisserie; and I ordered the Mixed Kebab with Rice (which was yummy) while hubby had the Roast Beef (which was so-so.. not great). We also ordered some roast potatoes which cost £5.50 (there were only 5 of them!), and the total bill came up to almost £50!! Yikes.

The memorial to Diana and Dodi..

and one of the many statues and carvings that have faces that strangely resemble the owner of Harrods, al-Fayed...

Our next stop turned out to be one of the highlights of our trip- a visit to Arsenal's Emirates Stadium! And I'm not even an Arsenal fan.. heh. It was a really cool experience; it's not often one gets to go behind the scenes and learn more about the club and the players.

Emirates Stadium is HUGE; I gasped when we walked in and caught the first glimpse of the inside. We also got to enter the dressing room, walk through the tunnel and sit on Arsene Wenger's seat! There were also a couple of interesting facts that we learnt on the guided tour- like how Arsene Wenger insists that only English is used (except for certain areas) and that there is a 8-year waiting list for membership to the Diamond Club (hope I got the name right) despite the £100,000 fee!

Bottom left: the preserved centre spot at Highbury :)

Last on our itinerary for the day was a musical- Wicked! The storyline was clever and funny, and there were a few memorable songs, although I wouldn't exactly rank it on par with musicals like Les Misérables or Miss Saigon. Wicked is about Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, (and how she came to be known as such), and it reminds us of how there is always two sides to every story.

Wicked was wicked! (Pardon the pun..)