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UK Day 2 : British Museum / Kings Cross / Concert

We woke up a little late. We ate breakfast outside at a place called Salt and Pepper. It was only a short walk away from our hotel, and right next to the British Museum of Natural History. We didn't want to spend all day at the museum. The plan was to get in, see some Egyptian stuff, see some Grecko-Roman stuff, and get out. But when we walked in, we saw an interesting exhibit called Feminine Power: The Devine to the Demonic (or something like that). So we paid to go through it, and it was worth it. Some really old art in there. We got to the Egyptian & Roman stuff, and Aaron accidentally recreated some photos from 2015 again. 


Enough about the Museum. We're trying to keep these short. Next up was Kings Cross. There wasn't really anything interesting at Kings Cross, it was just the station that was closest to the place we stayed at last time we were here. It's always a little weird revisiting places. We tried to go to platform 9 and 3/4, but there was a HUGE line. There was also a little Harry Potter store that definitely wasn't there last time. 




After a little debate about directions, we managed to walk back to the old Hostel, which isn't a hostel anymore. A security guard stopped us from going in. It's private property now, or government property. The guard was a little confusing, but basically we couldn't go in, but he was nice. We told him about our first stay, and he told us about the rennovations, and all the things that are still there, and all the things that weren't.  

Ok. Short blog Posts. We went to a concert. It was Half Alive and 21 Pilots at a place called 02 Academy Brixton. It took about 20 minutes to get there. Doors were at 7, or so we thought. We got there at about 7, and the end of the line was 3 blocks away. The people behind us in the giant line had bought their tickets a year before the show. It was sold out, so they were surprised we bought our tickets the night before. There were probably about 5000 people in the building. By the time we made it in, we had missed Half Alive, but 21 pilots was a great show!

 


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