London Bridge is not, in fact, falling down.

We've spent the last couple days sleeping late and relaxing- as well as fitting in the new Harry Potter movie on opening day! The 'cinema' was in the Camden Market area, and was actually in a refurbished old theater, complete with a stage and curtains. We had (assigned) seats in the balcony area, which were good, except that we wished the screen was a bit bigger (we were expecting an Imax size screen- the theater was certainly big enough- but instead it was more standard movie theater sized). In any case, it was really good and an excellent setup for the final movie- without any spoilers, Matt says it was the 'Empire Strikes Back' version of Harry Potter. I am not really quite sure what that means, but hey, maybe it tells you something.

We also went to Vinopolis, a 'wine museum,' right next to the still standing London Bridge (again, not falling down. American nursery rhymes have a lot to learn.). Actually a really fun time which was more learning through tasting than traditional museum experiences. We got tasting tickets for around 12 things, including wine, champagne, whisky, beer, absinthe, gin and rum. I think we spent around 3 hours there - with me writing detailed notes about each wine in the flavor journals they gave us, and Matt mostly standing around waiting for me to get done so we could get the next samples! Also, other people apparently don't particularly like whisky, so we got several extra taste tickets for free by the end.

We visited the British Museum as well, which was a really impressive collection of artifacts from a huge array of cultures all over the world. Probably most amazing to see was the Rosetta stone, which allowed scholars to finally translate the Egyptian hieroglyphics they had been studying. We also saw ax-heads from 400,000 years ago. That's not a typo. That's insane. 400,000 years old.

As my paid internet time is quickly running out, I will wrap this up by saying that we are continuing to have a really great time. We're headed to Brixton this evening to meet up with a friend of my brother's, and have only a couple days left here to enjoy, only 3 more nights of weird beds (though Sunday and Monday I think we are staying in a better hotel- tonight is the very last of the bunk bed hostels...hooray!!!).

Will try to take some more photos to post, but not that much interesting to take photos of when you are mostly just hanging out and relaxing!!! Till then, cheerio!