London Part 1: The British Museum, Oxford Street, & Piccadilly Square.

What an AMAZING day in London we had on Saturday! It was a full day, as the train left Nottingham at 7:30 in the morning and we didn't get back until a little after midnight. It was well worth the long hours and painful feet!

First up on the agenda was The British Museum. This place was HUGE! We saw many different exhibits focusing on different continents and specific countries around the world. As you can tell by the photos taken, we loved the Egypt and Greek/Roman exhibits. As always, pictures do not do the real items justice. We were in awe looking up at some of these massive and ancient artifacts. 

 The outside of the British Museum.

  

The Egypt exhibit. 

 The God of Wine. I thought this was fitting given my love for the drink!

 

Real mummies! Pretty insane, there was a room dedicated to these guys and the mummification process.

Next up on our list for the day was Oxford Street. This is comparable back home as Rodeo Drive or 5th Avenue. All the name brand stores and international stores were located on this street. A coworker of Jeff's told him during the holiday season it is packed shoulder to shoulder. 

We went into a few stores, one of which was called The Liberty. Apparently you can get ANYTHING here. If they don't have it, they will get it for you. Beautiful building inside and out. This is one store we weren't going to buy anything in...so expensive!

 The streets were well decorated as you can see. H&M and Nike Town were both over 4 stories tall. I made Jeff go into H&M with me, and he was lucky I had enough self control because all I wanted to do was start grabbing clothes to go try on. Maybe another day...



 Next up we went to Piccadilly Square. This is a mini version of Times Square in NYC. It was very cute, but nothing we stood around and looked at for too long.