Ghost Dreams

It's official! I have fallen back in love with Phantom of the Opera....especially since I saw it last night!!! It was so wonderful, amazing, awesome, and lovely. It made my heart so happy. My roomate here in London went together and we were both really giddy when it started and the music was coming up. It has been one of the best experiences I've had so far. As we speak I'm listening to the music. It was hard for me not to sing along. I'm sure the people around me are grateful.
That was only one thing we did yesterday. We had a busy day. We went to Platform 9 3/4 in King's Cross station and got a bunch of silly pictures of us pushing the cart through the wall. Then we went to the British Library and saw one of the most amazing exhibits ever. They had a whole bunch of old manuscripts and things from all over the world. There were original Jane Austen books, a handwritten Jane Eyre, a Gutenburg bible, some pages from Leonardo Da Vinci's notebook, the Lindisfarne Gosples, original notebooks from Mozart, Handel, Ravel, and others, an original copy of the Magna Carta, and there were plenty of other things that were amazing. After that we went to the British Museum and saw other equally famous/important artifacts. Some include the Rosetta Stone, the Sutton Hoo burial, Roman, Viking, Egyptian and Assyrian scupltures and artifacts, an Easter Island statue, and the turquoise serpent from the Aztecs. There were also plenty of other amazing things and it would probably take three days to go through the whole museum completely. They had these cool hands-on exhibits where you could handle some of the artifacts, so I spent some time there and it was amazing to learn about the different things various civilizations used. We also had an experience in Leicester Square where all of the tickets for shows are sold. We were there in the afternoon so it wasn't as packed as it would have been around 6 when all the scalpers are out and everyone is trying to buy/sell at the best price.
I don't know what the plan is for today, but I do know that the weeks to come will be just as packed. Most people do different things every day and even though I know I'll have time to do most of those things, I feel left out because I want to do everything! It is all so amazing. I never knew I could come so close to so many old and important items as well as great popular culture. I LOVE LONDON!