Quit playing games with my heart, cable guy

Bad news on the internet front... basically the deal here with cable and internet is that, first they have to install your cable (which as previously mentioned took much longer than it was supposed to). Then, a week later they call you to verify something and turn on your phone line (?) and then within a week they mail your modem. A little weird, but that's okay, we were prepared. Well a week later they didn't call us, so we called them. Now they've told us that maybe next week or the week after, tough to say really, we should get a letter from them which should lead to them sending out a technician to test our phone line, and then a week or so later they should mail the modem to us.

Now, I don't know if anything I just said made any sense. Most likely it didn't because we are thoroughly confused by the whole thing. All we know is that we may have internet for the last half of our short stay in London. I'm not getting my hopes up though. This cable company has broken my heart for the last time. I'm moving on. I just don't know what to quite yet...

In other news it's been a great week here. The sunshine I talked about in my last post is STILL here. It's so wonderful. I went to the Victoria and Albert Museum yesterday in SHORT sleeves. It felt so nice. One weird thing about Londoners is it seems like they're so used to really crappy weather that they're really slow to believe that it actually is quite nice outside. Before we moved here I thought I would be the Texas girl way overdressed for the weather, but yesterday that was not the case. I saw so many people still bundled up in wool coats and knit scarves wrapped 5 times around up to their noses. And I got the weird looks from them. I started to get paranoid. I mean they're actually from here... what do they know that I don't... So I don't know. Londoners are strange.

I did learn that the V&A is my kind of museum though! I only did a small portion of it (the part that Adam probably wouldn't enjoy) and spent 3 1/2 hours there. They have a whole room showing the changes in clothing from about the 1700's until now. It had every genre of clothing. i.e. evening wear, day wear, sports wear, under wear, wedding dresses. I loved it. After the fashion room I went to the British galleries, which are 2 floors covering all aspects of British culture from 1500 to 1900. I'm talking ALL aspects. Furniture, food/drink/entertaining, shopping... I mean, everything. I don't know if everyone would enjoy this as much as me, but I thought it was fascinating. For example, I spent 10 minutes staring at a small glass case showing the needlework that a girl did from age 8-13. It was amazing. It has the oldest sampler in good condition in the whole world (I recognize that only sounds cool to Donna, Renay, Beth, Anna, and Haley). So anyway, like I said, not everyone's thing. But I'll take Martha's needlework over the Venus de Milo any day.

Today we saw the Tower of London, and Adam had his first afternoon tea (my first tea in London). The Tower was not at all what I was expecting, but still an interesting tour. I'd never seen it, but if you've always envisioned one giant tower full of prison cells and bones everywhere, that's not it. It's like a little walled in community (people actually live there) with one squatty "tower" in the middle. Still, it was an entertaining tour and definitely something worth doing in London, but I would have appreciated a bit more gore.

Afternoon tea was so nice! We went with another couple that a friend of Adam's set us up with and had a great time. It was in Hyde Park, overlooking the Kensington Palace grounds, on a beautifully sunny afternoon. Lovely. And, bonus, Adam found the tea enjoyable! Tomorrow we're planning on going to Bath, assuming the weather stays nice...