This morning we went on a tour around the 4 inns of some legal stuff to do with people with wigs and capes. It was kinda interesting but nothing to write home about.
We then went to the Imperial War Museum which was pretty awesome but really confusing (due to the museum layout, not the subject matter). Hayden and I kept getting lost and there is only so many cases of military nick nacks (I'm terribly sorry, I'm not trying to be insulting to war stuff, but I really don't need to see some dudes dismantled boots, or some other dudes necklace). I guess we started out with the intent to at least pass through everywhere in the place, but little did we know how gigantic it was. The problem mainly came when we walked into a room and had to have a 30 min debate about whether we had seen this particular nick nack case or not.
There was some really cool stuff in there though and some interesting stories from some soldiers from Afghanistan. It also hit home for me how successful the Germans were in WW2. I think it was because I had been wandering around London (becoming pretty familiar with it) and then saw how bombed to hell it was during WW2. There was a creepy old picture of a Nazi plane flying over the Thames with fires and explosions all over London. I think coming from New Zealand (far away from all the action), and not having any immediate family involved with the war, I never really got why any one would join the army, but if someone started bombing my back yard I would certainly want to do something about it. I hate to get even more sombre but there was also an amazing (feels like the wrong word to use, but aweful wouldn't fit either) holocaust exhibition. Holy shit that Hitler dude had some crazy ideas, it wasn't even that long ago.
So to bring it back to a lighter note, here is a photo of a V2 rocket for James O:
and below is a picture of Hayden standing next to a rocket with a bunch of other rockets strapped to it. I can just imagine them sitting round a table discussing how they could give their one big rocket more blasting power, "I know, lets gaff some other smaller rockets to it". Genius. I also had to put a bit of "attitude cam" on to get the whole thing in the frame.
I think we sunk a good 5 hours or so into the place before they kicked us out and we probably only read / listened to about 9% of the information (of which only a small fraction was actually absorbed).
We went back to Haydens and he cooked me a delicious burger extravanganza sensations for dinner and now I have finally caught up with all this blogging shit. Crickey, I hope I don't get this behind again.
We then went to the Imperial War Museum which was pretty awesome but really confusing (due to the museum layout, not the subject matter). Hayden and I kept getting lost and there is only so many cases of military nick nacks (I'm terribly sorry, I'm not trying to be insulting to war stuff, but I really don't need to see some dudes dismantled boots, or some other dudes necklace). I guess we started out with the intent to at least pass through everywhere in the place, but little did we know how gigantic it was. The problem mainly came when we walked into a room and had to have a 30 min debate about whether we had seen this particular nick nack case or not.
There was some really cool stuff in there though and some interesting stories from some soldiers from Afghanistan. It also hit home for me how successful the Germans were in WW2. I think it was because I had been wandering around London (becoming pretty familiar with it) and then saw how bombed to hell it was during WW2. There was a creepy old picture of a Nazi plane flying over the Thames with fires and explosions all over London. I think coming from New Zealand (far away from all the action), and not having any immediate family involved with the war, I never really got why any one would join the army, but if someone started bombing my back yard I would certainly want to do something about it. I hate to get even more sombre but there was also an amazing (feels like the wrong word to use, but aweful wouldn't fit either) holocaust exhibition. Holy shit that Hitler dude had some crazy ideas, it wasn't even that long ago.
So to bring it back to a lighter note, here is a photo of a V2 rocket for James O:
and below is a picture of Hayden standing next to a rocket with a bunch of other rockets strapped to it. I can just imagine them sitting round a table discussing how they could give their one big rocket more blasting power, "I know, lets gaff some other smaller rockets to it". Genius. I also had to put a bit of "attitude cam" on to get the whole thing in the frame.
I think we sunk a good 5 hours or so into the place before they kicked us out and we probably only read / listened to about 9% of the information (of which only a small fraction was actually absorbed).
We went back to Haydens and he cooked me a delicious burger extravanganza sensations for dinner and now I have finally caught up with all this blogging shit. Crickey, I hope I don't get this behind again.
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