This morning, Dr. Everhart charged me with the task of navigating us to the public library in the
Barbican Centre as I am good with directions, though I was relatively unaware that this was public knowledge. In any case, I got us there in time for our 10am tour appointment. The Barbican Library is the largest public library in the city of London. They have a large portion of their library devoted to a music collection. The Barbican Library is located in the middle of a business district of London so the largest demographic of their patronage is men aged 25-40.
Elana and I couldn't help but note that this is clearly where we need to be looking for our respective future British husbands.
Our photography focus of the day was "thinking differently" which was not the easiest to capture since we were not allowed to take pictures within
St. Paul's Cathedral which was the next stop on our itinerary for the day. The Cathedral was very interesting nonetheless and we had a very good tour guide, John. In fact, he showed us the
geometric staircase in the Cathedral which was used in the filming of
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. So, we just had to see for ourselves. The FSU Study Centre has a collection of DVDs in its library available for checkout so we went and checked it out to watch. Sure enough, the staircase appears about 40 or so minutes in. (Actually, we were investigating where in the movie it would come in and found that perhaps it was in
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban instead so I emailed my friends who are hardcore Harry Potter fans and sure enough, they responded with the exact movie and scene in which it appears - yeah, they are a little more than fans.)
To end the day, I went to the grocery store (as suggested by our new BFF Elvis) to get a
kidney pie as instructed by my friend Donnie. Yeah, Donnie said it was just
called kidney pie, that there wasn't actually kidney in it. Yeah, he was wrong. It was alright. At least I can return home to tell Donnie that I tried it.
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