Singing beep beep beep. Get on your feet.

Today my roommate and I did not receive our scheduled wake-up call and woke up at the unfortunate hour of 8:45...class started at 9 and it takes 30 minutes by tube to get there. Frantically we jumped out of bed, got dressed, grabbed our belongings and ran out the hotel door to look for a cab- the quickest (yet most expensive) way to get to our classroom. Or at least generally it is the quickest way to get there...today, however, we managed to take 5 precious minutes to get a cab. (On any normal day we are nearly getting run over by fleets of them as we cross our street.) We also managed to hit every red light on the way to Bloomsbury Square. This at least left us some time to do our makeup, hair, and look presentable for when we made it to class at 9:10, promptly as our visiting speaker was about to start his presentation. Talk about cutting it close.

After class, we went to the natural history museum. The coolest parts of the museum were the dinosaur and human biology exhibits. We were also able to go ice skating in the rink just outside the museum at sunset :)