Just another day, nothing in my way

Melissa here. Day 2 recap.

We slept til 10:30. That's right, 10:30. We went to bed around midnight. I guess we were sleep deprived. I threw on some clothes, Chad put on his shoes and we made in downstairs to the bar just in time for breakfast. It was quick, cereal and toast. Then we headed back upstairs to start the day. We walked down Portobello Road and hit the flea market. The fruit was amazing. Why don't our grapes look like those! I bought some apples because they were too good to pass up. The Portobello Road Market is blocks and blocks of food, clothes and antiques. I saw some really cool clothes. Very trendy London style. It was all still rather pricey. If the same venders are there later this week, I might go back.
After the market, we went back to the room to decide what to do for the afternoon. After pouring over our book, we chose the British library. It sounded interesting. We hopped on the tube and headed to King's Cross. By this time, we are hungry and looking for food. We stop at a pub called The Rocket. We both ate lunch for about $10. That was a good deal. Onto the library. It was just one floor of exhibition since this is a functioning library. One thing, the Magna Carter. Yeah, we saw the actual Magna Carter. Amazing. We saw original writings by Galileo, DaVinci, Isaac Newton. We also saw the Codex Sinaiticus. It is a 4th Century Greek Bible. Also, they had a little Beatles section. Yep, I saw the original writings of Here, There, and Everywhere, Strawberry Fields Forever, Ticket to Ride, and Michelle. It is just amazing how these amazing lyrics are scribbled on napkins and notepad paper. I Wanna Hold your hand was in this case as well. At the bottom of the paper it said, "This was written by Paul's hand and composed by John and Paul in Jane Asher's basement." How cool is that. By this time, it is starting to get chilly outside, so we head back to the room to grab an extra layer of clothing. Back at the room, we have some tea and decide to check out the Tate Modern Museum. It is open late on Friday nights. Back on the tube. This tube trip is a bit longer. We get to Blackfriars station around 8 and then decide to try to grab some dinner. We walk over the Millenium Bridge to the museum to turn around in time to realize we are right next to St. Paul's Cathedral. It is quite massive and I can't wait to see the inside. Dinner is in the Museum. That had a little cafe and that is all we could find. Dinner was quick and then we practically ran through one floor of the musuem. In about an hour, we saw some Picasso, Pollock, Klimt, Degas, and Monet. Since it was modern, we weren't interested in all of it. Once we left the museum, we grab a taxi back to the hotel. I think we were a bit skeptical of walking around at 10pm by ourselves. We got lucky and had an awesome cab driver. He drove us around and showed us a few things. I saw Buckingham palace from the outside and also the residence of Prince Charles. He said he had been to the states 9 times. All of them, Florida. Ha! That is so funny. I guess living in the south you take for granted the warmth and the beach. He advised us not to take a cab after 10pm because it is more expensive. Thanks! It was cool to take to someone. He thought Chad and I were newlyweds. Nope. Sort of a second honeymoon though. We spent the night in the room because I haven't surfed the web in a while. Flipped on the telly and got to watch the Mercury Music prize broadcast. Awesome. The Arctic Monkeys won by the way. Time for bed so we can take the Beatles walk tomorrow!