St. Paul's and Fleet Street

Michelle and I in front of the statue of Dr. Johnson's cat. He must have loved that cat a lot.

Michelle and I reenacted Sweeney Todd after finding a barber shop on Fleet Street.

I enjoyed parts of this walk, but mostly I found that we were going to random places that weren't that interesting. I loved seeing St. Paul's Cathedral. Its so enormous and this walk was the first time I'd seen it. I wish we could go see that as a group and go inside. Christopher Wren was an amazing architect. All along the walk we saw all these churches and all of them were designed by him. It's amazing to see how much one man can contribute to the world.

I also enjoyed walking along Fleet street, mainly because of Sweeney Todd. It was awesome seeing that, although I can't imagine how whoever wrote that musical got the idea of having him live on Fleet Street. Especially when I look at how it's laid out now--lots of businesses, no houses/places to live.

Today, the day after I went on this walk, Jaynann and I went to the London museum and went to the more modern section. This section was full of lots of information and artifacts from the Blitz. We sat down and watched this movie clip. It was a bunch of pictures with voice over interviews of people that were there when it happened. It was really neat to hear the experiences and see the pictures. There was a part where they talked about St. Paul's and how everything around it was destroyed, but somehow that cathedral stayed up. I thought that was a really neat story.