Thursday, September 11, 2008

Our lovely presenters for today were Megan and Elena. Megan presented on Hans Sloane who invented milk chocolate, among other things but really, what is more important than chocolate? She also included “Happy Birthday Ryan” and “Happy Birthday Amanda” slides in her presentation. Elena presented on Alfred Lord Wallace, a man who also came up with Natural Selection but was beaten to the publishing punch by Darwin. Our afternoon expedition to a fellow named John Soanne’s House. Soanne was an architect; a fairly wealthy one by the end of his life so during it he bought three townhouses in a fancy neighborhood, connected them all and made it one giant house. He also piled all sorts of random stuff into his house. There were busts everywhere, a room dedicated to Holborn paintings, the Sarcophagus of Seti I, vases, statues and over 6,000 books. Now, when he connected the three houses together, for the most part, he did not knock down walls to make rooms bigger and with all the stuff in his house, It was incredibly hard to walk through and was very cramped. You also weren’t allowed to take pictures, but I got a postcard! Now for many days previous, since I went to go buy chocolate cake mix for Panda, I was bent on making Ryan a Dora the Explorer cake. When we went to get it, we discovered that they were Dora the Explorer cupcakes but got them anyways. We also got him a £4 Dalek water bottle. Once again, we made our cake thing with no measuring cups to speak of. It all turned out for the tastiest. People from other kitchens came over and sang Happy Birthday and ate cupcakes, was a good time. James’ friend Joe also made the treck over to visit while Ryan indulged in his twenty-one-ness

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