Roar...

Well, we just spent a couple of nights near London. It was great fun, we went down on Wednesday morning and stopped in Cambridge to do some shopping on the way there, I love it, it's so beautiful and historic. Then we eventually got to our travelodge in Ilford. We went and got yummy chinese from the local take-away which was fun. Thursday we took the tube into London to go to the Victoria and Albert museum. I had found out that they had some ansel Adams prints there so I thought I'd check them out. I went up to the print room and ordered five boxes and spent several hours mulling over them. It's such an incredible resource, you can just go and ask to see these priceless prints! Definitely going back.
After looking at just over 30 images we went to the South Kensington Crêperie, we shared a savoury and had a sweet one each. SO YUMMY! Then we made our way to covent garden and mooched around for a while, we ate dinner in this little pub called the white heart i think, it was so lovely and friendly. In the evening we went to see the Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre which was amazing, such an incredible performance, especially from the young children in it. I love the music from the show aswell. After a few minutes you stopped seeing the characters as people dressed up as animals, and the just became animals. An amazing show!
Friday morning we left and went to Ikea to go and get a new computer table from me as mum's cousin is giving me his old Mac G4. Very exciting. We got somewhat lost on the way there, it was very confusing to find, and I was driving, but it's all good experience. We had yummy meatballs for luch. We got home at around 5pm, then I went out for a party at the place I work for my mates 18th Birthday which was a great laugh.

Crack

I went on a school trip to the tate modern yesterday, it was great fun. I have been like five times before, but they have a lot of new stuff since the last time I went. The crack in the turbine hall has had so much publicity that I expected it to be much larger and more impressive. It was interesting but not as good as other installations have been such as the sun, and the white boxes. I found work by Francesca Woodman though, which I was very pleassed about as she is one of my faviourite photographers. Her work isn't there for very long so I am lucky to have seen it. There were 18 prints and a short video which was really interesting. It's so sad to read her story though. It was a long day but was all in all good fun.