Middle Earth and Platform 9 and 3/4

Well, as they say in Britain, everything yesterday "went to shit". It was still fun, and I'll elaborate in a minute. As for today (Saturday), I went and found Platform 9 and 3/4 (Harry Potter stuff). Right now, I'm eating lunch and waiting to meet Matt at the Houses of Parliament. Hopefully, there will be a debate we can see. Later, I'm off to the Globe to see Timon of Athens. I'll come back and pack. Tomorrow, the Underground opens at 7, so I'll get on and take it to King's Cross and then to Heathrow (I scouted it out this morning, and there are no steps!). On to yesterday:

Friday
We woke up early to go to the British Museum. The British Museum may be one the most impressive museums I've ever seen, and I only got to see about a third of it. It's incredibly huge with a lot of stuff in every room. In order to make the play at 2, we only spent about 2 and 1/2 hours there, but we saw the stuff we really wanted to see (Egyptians, Greeks, Romans). We left to go to the play, and after finding the place, they tell us the play is sold out, but it was a children's version anyway (ages 6-11). In summary, we left the coolest museum early to make a play that we couldn't see anyway. Oh well, we walked through Regent's Park and found a place to eat. For a few hours, we walked around, found a bookstore, and sat at a café before we had to meet Matt at 4:30 to go see the play at night. The theater is in Greenwich, and for those who don't know, it takes forever to get there from Central London. Second, no one had a good map of Greenwich, so we had no idea how to get there. So, we got on the Underground, rode it to the DLR (Underground trains?), and got off in North Greenwich (where the paper said to get off). When we finally arrived, someone told us we were a 10 minute bus ride from the place, which makes it a long walk. We decided to take a bus (to where we really didn't know), but we didn't know whether our Travelcards worked (they did thank God). On the bus, we had no idea where to get off. We miraculously picked the right time to get off. We walked to Greenwich Park, and found the Royal Observatory where the play was supposed to be. As the day has gone, the play was cancelled for some reason, so we couldn't see the play. Go figure. Fortunately, the Royal Observatory is also where the Prime Meridian runs through, so we were in the Middle of the World by accident, which was pretty cool. There was a really good view of London from there as well. We decided to go to Batman: the Dark Knight, but we needed dinner first. We found an Indian restaurant (okay) and headed to Central London again. When we arrived at the movie theater, the only available show was for 11:35. First, the Underground stops at 12:30. Second, most people left this morning. Therefore, it wouldn't work, so we headed to a pub across from Big Ben for a few drinks. A nice Scottish man talked to us for awhile, and we left around 10:30. In other words, nothing worked as planned, but it was still a fun day, and as the song in the bar is singing, "You can't always get what you want." Ironic.

Observations:
- A "crackin' set of pins" = nice legs (a man on the Underground said to Becky)
- No one honks. They just roll down their windows and yell obscenities.