An Artist's Thoughts: V & A

Today has been a blast!!!! I am extremely proud of myself!!! We got an invite for Suzanne (one of the professors on the trip) to go to the V& A Museum today. However everyone in the group was doing their own thing today, and I really wanted to go. So I knew that if I wanted to go I'd have to swallow my fears of getting lost, and going alone.... and just do it.... Go. So I did!!! I even did the switching tube lines with NO problem!!! Granted I asked someone just to make sure I was headed in the right direction. But I did it!!!!

So when Suzanne and I got to the V & A, after we went potty, we went to the cafe' area. Suzanne was going to get some work done while I explored. I'm guessing we were about the first ones there because there was barely anyone in the cafe, our in the court yard (you'll see pictures later), because when I met back up with Suzanne where I left her (at a table in the cafe') there were people EVERYWHERE!!! Again you'll see later in the pictures.

They had a few exhibits that you had to pay for, I got tickets for: William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain (AMAZING!!!!!) and Wedding Dresses fro 1775 to 2014 (not as impressed as I expected it to be). No photography in here.... I wasn't gonna get in trouble like I did yesterday.... but in the jewelry exhibit I was asked not to take pictures. But I got a few pictures of the pieces from the 1500-1700s.

When I got back to my flat.... I chatted a few minutes with my love, Jason, before I actually crashed for about an hour.

Ok.... enough chit-chat.... you all wanna see pictures right? Ok, I have a few pictures that I took a picture of their little info square too. I'm going to put those in "little" picture size so you all aren't overwhelmed.

Enjoy!!

Just so you all know it was not this pretty when we got here this morning. It was gloomy and rainy

You see the highest peek of the building out here.... but...

This is looking up into it from the inside!!

Suzanne not expecting a picture

This is the court yard, or the garden - looking back to the museum part of the place

An outside cafe' - but we didn't go there

This was where the cafe' was.

A glass blown chandelier

When I went back to the Cafe' that Suzanne was sitting at, 1 PM the Garden area was FULL of peoples!!! But still totally gorgeous!!

This was just one of the 4 different food cafe' counters. I just so happened to be more of the breakfast/coffee part of it all. In the back corner you can see where they have like a baked good counter with cakes and cookies, there was a cold sandwich place behind it, and to the left of that was a hot plate counter with pastas, stuffed stuff, and meats.

This was where Suzanne found a table to sit at and do work while I explored. On the baby grand piano is one of my favorite plants/flowers (it's in the top 5), Bird of Paradise. Look at the vaulted ceilings, the mosaic work on the columns, and the stained glass windows!!!! Gorgeous!!!!