Summer Vacation - Week 2 - Day 5 in London

Today was the end of our second week of summer vacation and it was truly an amazing day.  We started the day off at the V&A Museum, which I must say is one of the finest museums I have ever experienced to date.  It is chaotic, amazing, beautiful and has more stuff than I thought could be put in a museum.  They say it takes at least 5 days to due the museum justice.  Even thought we had just a short time, it was a great introduction to the museum and I can't wait to go back.  The effort they make for kids is awesome as well. 

After V&A we headed to Harrod's, the famous department store that has over 200 departments.  Harrod's even used to have a department for exotic animals (think lions, tigers, etc.)  While they got rid of the exotic animal department and only sell them online... they still have the most amazing food hall I have ever seen.  Fresh food, packaged food, caviar, meat, chocolate, teas... and the list goes on and on.  I got suckered into a $5 cupcake for Lily, but it was worth it just to experience the food hall.

After Harrod's we a restaurant called Seafresh which was rated to have the top 5 fish and chips in all of England.  I must say they were pretty darned good. 

Our final stop of the day was the Museum of Natural History.  Again, an amazing museum.  And again, a little chaotic of a layout, but definitely awesome.  Lily thoroughly enjoyed the oversized gemstone exhibit (she says she wants to be a gemologist when she grows up - or a chef).  We definitely didn't have enough time or energy left to see all the exhibits so a return visit is definitely in our cards.  And we didn't make it to the science museum yet.  Oh, so many things to do and so little time.

Some pictures from the day.

The V&A Museum exterior

 Room and room full of ceramics (just like this one)

 Beautiful British artifacts

 Lily trying on a hoop skirt and petticoat, just as they wore back in the day

 The fish market in the food hall at Harrods

 Museum of Natural History - escalator into the volcano

 Enjoying her last day with both cousins - Roslyn leaves tomorrow for California