London study today...first was Middle temple. It is one of the four Inns of Court which have the exclusive right to call men and women to the Bar...I don't know. It's an association or something of the sort of lawyers. Like a country club. (Don't trust this information though, I don't really know what I'm talking about.) We had a fancy shmancy dinner where they put the napkins on our laps for us! The menu for us was (1) a mushroom and leek and cherry tomato tart (2) fillet of pork with a bubble and squeak and green peppercorn sauce...whatever a bubble and a squeak is. There were mashed potatoes and vegetables with it! (3) lemon icecream with apple crumble and (4) fruit tea. I guess we weren't supposed to take pictures in there...shh don't tell. 
And our second stop of the day, the house of Charles Dickens. This is where he lived when he wrote Oliver Twist, and inside there were a ton of marble busts of himself. They were everywhere you looked! I had no idea what he looked like before today...but now I do! He had a pretty nice comb over and beard. We watched a really boring video of his life but all the rooms and pictures of his family and handwritten pages were fun to see. I can't believe that before printing presses or typewrites or computers everything was handwritten...what a nightmare. All the houses in this neighborhood were so cute, every door was different and each one had a doorstep with a mosaic tile landing. I wanted to take pictures of all of them...but didn't.
Cute pictures :)
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