London trip

The end of last week, I headed to London to work for the day with the company I am working with on the Science 2 Data Science course I am on. It was interesting working in the office. The guys in my team are working there on a regular basis so I needed to get my face shown! Though, if I do end up in London, not sure how I am going to enjoy London traffic and noise. :(

On Saturday, I went to the Museum of London (it's free) for some of the morning. Getting there was trickier than expected. Not surprised as whenever I am in London the tube lines I want are either down for work or they are on strike. Figures!

The Museum is interesting to wonder around for a while.

Giant skull 

Lots more skulls

Shield

Part of London city wall

The Museum goes from dark ages through to modern life. Some of the paintings were lovely.

Great Fire of London

However there was a creepy area. I have absolutely no idea what was going on. It was a Pleasure Garden but created by Tim Burton. And I was the only one in there. I left quickly. Really creepy statues in the dark.

Creepy

Super creepy!

The other main point of the trip was a meet up with with the other participants in the program. About 10 out of the 15 could make it and it was nice to meet everyone. Though I didn't recognise some. Skype and Hangout images are not that good.
We got the tube to Greenwich and walked to the Observatory where we spent some time wondering around.

View from Greenwich Observatory

meridian line

View over the Maritime Museum

Sun dial.

Much more useful clock in the UK

Magnolia

Early Japanese TV!

It was a bit bitter sweet. We saw a planetarium show. But it just isn't as interesting to me anymore. It's time to move onto a new life now. I just don't get as excited about space as I once did.

Telescope.

We had a little issue with losing a few people on the way to the meal (they got on a train they shouldn't have). But once everyone got above ground, it was easy to meet up again. Once we all got to restaurant, we had a very nice meal and got to know everyone.

It was a very nice day. Though once again thanks to the tube, getting back to my hotel was trickier than it should have been.

On Sunday evening (after travelling home on the afternoon), we went for a family meal for Mom and Kerrys birthdays at Michelangelo 's.

Kerry, Craig and me

Mom and dad

The food was amazing. I took a few photos. But we all got bored easily. Well, mom and Kerry did!

Kerry got bored.

Then so did mom.