Dodos

I finally have my own user ID and password at the hospital, so I'm trying to use the really awkward metal keyboard here in the cafeteria for an update. This is my induction (or orientation) week at Whipps Cross, so I couldn't actually take off any more time to spend with Viv...however, she is spending Tues, Wed, and Thurs with a different friend in Rumford I think it is, and then back with me for St. Patty's and all of next weekend.

So on Friday, we wandered around High St Kensington for a bit, met Jo and a friend of hers for lunch, and then walked to the Museum of Natural History. We wanted to see the 30-foot squid, but you had to have booked onto a guided tour for that, so after seeing the dinosaur and a few other displays, Viv and I wandered across the street to the Victoria andAlbert museum. Very impressive, but massive, so we only actually walked through a small portion of it. Oh, and by the way, we did see a show Thurs night-- Mary Poppins...very similar to the movie, but with a few different songs. The actress in the lead role was very good, and they had her flying over the audience.

Viv and I took off early Sat morning to spend the weekend in Cambridge, armed with some advice on the best colleges and museums to see, and some good bars. We got to the Central tube station, and it wasn't running! So we got on a bus to Stratford, which has a big bus station, and two tube lines, and is only 10 min from my house by bus. Well, we thought we got on the Jubilee tube there, but had actually gotten on the Silver Link Train line! So we ended up traveling all the way round to the western part of the city, where we got on the Jubilee tube, then switched to the Victoria tube, and finally arrived at the Victoria Coach station. We were able to get on the 9:30 bus(we'd booked for 8:30), and wouldn't you know it, the bus stopped at Stratford on the way out of town to Cambridge. Doh! However, we did get really great views of Parliament, Big Ben, London Eye, Tower of London, and Tower Bridge. And on our way back from Cambridge, we got off in Stratford, which made the journey just over an hour, which was nice and quick. Almost missed the bus in Cambridge though...more later, have to go back to training.