Museums On Museums

Larbear,

Those salads look AMAZING, you know I adore a good salad and you seem to have found the best ones everywhere you go. I'm also definitely missing my solid Tucson Mexican food, so I'm a little jealous you managed to find some before I did...

Today we had presentations in my Jack the Ripper class which took around an hour, and for a "treat," our teacher decided we should all take a field trip to the Museum of London. Normally I'm not big on museums, but I've actually learned to appreciate them more now that I'm able to go at my own pace and don't feel as if I'm being forced into going. I loathe structured tours. An added bonus was the unbelievable cafe right in the entryway, so after a quick glance around the museum, two friends and I headed over to grab lunch.

Very self explanatory

I got a toasted turkey sandwich with lettuce, tomato, a spiced mustard, and provolone

I never hesitate to treat myself to a Millionaire's Shortbread, you're going to be OBSESSED with these

After the Museum of London, Caitlin and I met up with some other friends and headed to the Tate Museum of Modern Art. I was really excited because unlike the dull and tiresome Renaissance and Victorian art I've had impaled through my skull throughout our childhood, I actually really like modern art. We even managed to find the St. Paul's Cathedral on our way over (which for whatever reason, we weren't able to get a group picture with because not one person we asked would get the cathedral in the background).

Outside St. Paul's Cathedral

On the bridge going to the Tate Modern, little St. Paul's right by my head

Unfortunately, the Tate terrified us all. With its gangly Coraline-esque structures, uncomfortable art-splatterings, and nightmare-inducing "adult nature" videos (nothing perverse, it was creepy music playing softly in a dark room while a hand creature consumed a swimmer in the ocean...that is honestly the best way I can describe it), I don't think any of us are going back anytime soon.

The Tate: seemingly normal from the outside...

Treated ourselves for surviving the Tate with some candied peanuts for the tube ride home

While my other friends left for a dinner with their travel groups, I headed back to my dorm to grab some running shoes and head to the park for a jog. An hour later I had an appetite again, so I decided to be economically-conscious and eat this surprisingly amazing soup I got from Tesco (grocery store down the street). Hopefully my pictures and vivid descriptions are getting you ready for London, I'll try to make sure I don't eat everything before you get here!

PROOF IT HAPPENED. I'm still a little disappointed my future perfect British jogger  husband hasn't discovered me yet, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time...

SO YUMMY and healthy. Beans, barley, tomatoes, mushrooms, celery, onions, zucchini and I'm sure I'm forgetting something

Xoxo,
Kim