Saturday, September 19, 2009

Tower of London and Shakespeare

Well yesterday was such a great day!  We woke up pretty early and headed to the tower of London as a whole group.  We got out tickets and headed inside and went straight to the crown jewels.  It was incredible. Probably one of my favorite things that I have done since we have been here.  I saw the biggest diamond in the world, the First Star of Africa! It was 503.2 carrots and on the royal scepter. There we a couple crowns including the Royal Crown and the crown used at the coronations. After the crown jewels we headed to do a tour with one of the Yeoman Warders. He told us about the history of the tower and about some of the people that used to live there.  He was a retired military man and was very funny, both qualifications to become a warder.  We wandered around the tower a little bit and saw where Anne Boleyne was beheaded and saw the torture chamber.  We also saw this very interesting exhibit on King Henry the VIII armor.  We headed a home a couple hours later and got ready to go to see Shakespeare’s Alls Well that Ends Well at the national theater.  It was quite interesting but I really enjoyed it.  Alot of the humor and details of the story were kind of over my head but I got the main gist of plot and I liked it!  It is basically about this girl who falls in love with this boy and through some ties with the king they are married.  The boy wants nothing to do with her and leaves to go into the army in Italy and gives his new bride some impossible demands which she has to get. It was quite funny and complicated plot.  I felt like there was an underlying theme with the costumes and some nuances that I was missing but it was still entertaining.  It was a great finish to a great day.  

A Yeoman Warder...
The Tower of London...
The National Theater...
The Play...

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