Americans Go Free!

So today started out spectacularly well; I dragged myself out of bed early and met up with Vanessa at nine. Today at Madame Tussaud's, in honor of Obama's inauguration, Americans got in free (with passport proof). On the register, it said "DISCOUNT: AMERICANS GO FREE," which made us laugh.

I'm so glad we went early, it was really fun to be able to take our time to go through and do the place right. We took a bunch of pictures of us chumming with celebrities on the red carpet (both of us felt very underdressed for the occasion, however) and then proceeded to... the High School Musical room!! Okay, you're judging me. But I don't care, we got a fun picture of us with Zac Efron, and encountered a guy dressed in a male cheerleader outfit who was almost too enthusiastic about getting people to "shake a pom-pom with Zac!" He made us jump for a professional photo and shout "WILDCATS!" and told me that he really liked my shirt ("Make cupcakes, not war"). When we were leaving, he was explaining to the next group of people that "you all get to jump, the next group in has to do the splits." (Note: when Velossa and I were waiting in line to take our Obama picture, we looked at the screen that showed the professional ones... said cheerleading guy was doing a full front split in one of them. He was crazy! I want to be his friend.)

After that we got to movie characters and directors, and we again had a fun time posing with those. I was disappointed we could get closer to the Indiana Jones one, but I was very happy with the picture I did get. We proceeded from there to the sports hall- again, some very fun pictures- and then to the royal family. I thought the picture frames around Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth were a bit awkward, but we dealt with those, and the line for the pictures with the Queen made it really awkward to get Princess Diana pictures, but we dealt with that as well. The famous painters, writers, and thinkers of the past were entertaining to tool around with as well (you really should just check out the photo albums on facebook at this point in time if you haven't yet). The musicians were also cool- though we almost missed Justin Timberlake (I have no idea how). Also, I wish that there was space to sit on the couch with the Beatles, that setup was a bit awkward.

Waiting in line to get Obama pictures was totally worth it, and I had fun with the other important leaders of the past and present (Napoleon, Tony Blair, making fun of Hitler...). The Chamber of Horrors was sort've weird, and we went through this "ride" called "SCREAM!" It was neither scary nor a ride nor very interesting to look at... though it might've been scarier if the actors didn't jump out at the people in front of us, which sort've softened the jumpiness factor.

We hit one more room of celebs and then, tucked away in corners of the gift shop, were Charlie Chapman and Mr. T. Why were they hiding? The world may never know.

Diff Eq is such a random class... the examples are so easy, I do them in like two seconds in class and then space out while he does them out, but then the homework problems are a lot harder.

After Diff Eq Caitlin, Vanessa, UF Kevin and I met up and went to Drapers, where we watched the inauguration. I enjoyed the typos on the BBC's close captioning (some examples, though there were many that were much better in Obama's speech: "could survive" became "could-sur-viv" and "true to God" became "true to the O'God." Apparently God became Irish??) Also, I was sort've annoyed with the BBC newscasters, since they were talking over the instrumental to tell us that President Obama wouldn't die of pneumonia in a month (coughHarrisoncough). I felt that that was a bit unnecessary. Also, when Biden was getting sworn in, they were talking about something along the lines of how they hoped that he wouldn't need to take another set of oaths any time soon. Jeez, trying to jinx us much?

Major props to Aretha for calling out Georgia during My Country Tis. I sort've wish she'd gone on to name the rest of the states, too.

After that, the four of us went to The Half Moon for dinner. Yummy food, and pretty cheap, too- they have some good deals there and a nice, varied menu. And awesome desserts!

After attempting chunks of my maths homeworks (Why maths? Because it's mathematics, which is plural, so maths has to be plural, too. At least that's what I've been told...) it is time to go to bed, though.