We'd especially not been navigating around London from the Ruislip tube station. It was quite fun to start learning a a new way around.
Back to Egypt...Paulster and I went to Egypt in May of 2006, so it gave us a little trip down memory lane. The Egyptian Museum in Cairo was chocked full of antiquities that are just too cool to believe--an "embarrasment of riches" (as Hatchie Gal says), really. So, forgive us for being a little disappointed in the exhibit--they didn't have the "Death Mask"--which is probably the most famous artifact of all or one of the 4 or 5 gold covered nesting-doll-type sarcophaguses (what is the plural of sarcophagus?).
But what they did have were many rare artifacts and the exhibit itself was done quite well. Some of the items looked like they'd been crafted yesterday, rather than 3,000 years ago. It was worth seeing, but a trip to Cairo is much better! :)
Here's a picture of Paulster and me riding camels in Cairo...and the Sphinx. I never expected to be able to see that in person.
After we'd had our fill of King Tut, we wandered outside of the Millenium Dome to see what we could see. The Millenium Dome is the world's largest single-roof structure. It's essentially a large tent supported by 12 tower structures--and is like a city inside. Restaurants, 2 concert venues, a 12 screen movie theatre, convention centre...it's really pretty cool. Oh yeah, and they have 2 Starbucks in there.
We continued to walk around and found the Greenwich Meridian. The line in Greenwich represents the Prime Meridian of the World - Longitude 0ยบ. Every place on Earth is measured in terms of its distance east or west from this line. The line itself divides the eastern and western hemispheres of the Earth - just as the Equator divides the northern and southern hemispheres.
Here's a picture of Drama and Paulster with one foot in each hemisphere.
A good day out.
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too funny!
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