London - Day 3

Day 3 was another busy day seeing lots of fun stuff. The British Museum was the highlight of my time in London. Melody probably liked the Tower of London best, and I'll post pictures of that another time. Below you see some of my favorite exhibits: The Rosetta Stone (yes, THE Rosetta Stone - the same story written in three different languages, Greek, Egyptian Demotic, and Egyptian Hieroglyphics - whereby we finally learned to read the latter in the year 1858). Next to it is some actual Greek architecture. Below those are a Babylonian entrance sculpture and a really cool looking laughing Budda from the Asian wing of the museum.

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Another stop took us to the HMS Belfast, a battleship that saw service in both WWII and the Korean conflict. You see, of course, the 6" guns and a huge torpedo, then below are various candy items that were for sale in the ships store. (the Mars Bars are English [basically a Milky Way] no the nougat with almonds that we consider a Mars bar to be). I thought it was cool to see the Kit-Kats and other familiar stuff.

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Finally, we have two of the really funny "life-like" displays on board the Belfast. Sick bay with an operation going on, and the dentist's office. We both got a kick out of these rooms.

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Take a minute to click on the photos to enlarge them and look at the detail. Amazing.