David's Fig Leaf

Wow guys, London has to be one of my very favorite cities! Its clean, the people are unbelievably friendly, and the architecture will blow your mind. For all of you that said take lots of pictures fret not, we are filling up camera card after camera card. The only thing that saved us from having to go back and download the pics is that the museums where we spent all day wouldn't allow us to take pictures.

So all of you who have taken intro to art of any art course actually, we are seeing that stuff! I know I am an Art geek but I can't count the number of times my jaw dropped yesterday. They say that David is nine feet tall, but the pictures hardly do justice!!! And yes Mom, the real thing doesn't have a fig leaf, it was sometimes put on though for when ladies visited. We had to do two museums in one day so Sarah got some practice helping me hurry along. I just wanted to memorize every stroke and get real close and then move away and then get close again. I felt horrible having to pass by some of the work so that we could see everything. All the hours and painstaking details and all I spare for the work that took months sometimes years is a measly five minutes. Its amazing to look at who the artist is and flip out. Ahhh that's Cindy Sherman!! ahh that's actually Cindy Sherman!!!!!! Or to get real close and see Picasso's bruch strokes. Yes PICASSO breathed on this there might be a piece of his hair in this work. This is huge and beautiful, oh look he didn't cover the whole canvas!! In fact the only thing I wasn't impressed with was Monet's Water Lilies, a little too green and not nearly a great as it is hyped up to be.

Okay okay I'll stop I am sure you are more interested in hearing about the number of awkward situations we have been in already. i.e SOHO is not a shopping district here, its more like gay pubs all over, Sarah says more like Greenwich Village. At least the construction workers are polite... I think. What's better, someone whistling and staring or someone waiting for you to pass and saying something about enjoying the view and if we didn't want to stay at our hostel.... no worries though we waved and mentioned that we are flying out today. Actually, for all who said be safe, Sarah and I are being safe. In fact we commonly bring up WWCD (What would Curt Miller want us to do) and go with what Curt would say. I figure that should keep us away from to much trouble :)

So though I kinda had my heart set on Lion King (it doesn't play on Monday's) Sarah treated me to Les Misarables. FABULOUS! Man, we ate it up. There are so many forms of art involved to create such a performance and you are almost afraid to blink. Man, they really can sing and the story line was packed full of grace. Going to the theater just reminded me of the first time when I went with my Dad to see Measure for Measure by Shakespeare. He took me to my first nice restaurant and it was like a Daddy daughter date. If I ever move here I think the biggest reason would be to see musicals for cheap.

This place is great and I am sure you are going to hear so much from us when we get back. I would just hate to be typing when I could be looking at Reubens, Dali, or Seurat.

£ Sarah Miller