Morgan and I spent the weekend in Liverpool. Our hotel, Sir Thomas Hotel, so right next to the City Centre so we have all the restaurants, attractions, and shops at our finger tips. The first thing we did was go to the Liverpool Football Club store to look at jerseys for our lovelys. Then we walked through St. John's Garden, took some pictures and went to the Walker's Art Gallery. There was a statue exhibit on the first floor and a collectors exhibit on the second floor. My favorite pieces were the Rembrandt self-portrait and Andy Warhol's Super Star Fucker. You can find the pictures on my facebook when I upload them tonight.
Then we went to the World Museum (both of these were free of charge). First floor was a small aquarium, which was interesting, but nothing like the Georgia Aquarium. The second floor was Bug World where we saw fire ants (outside of its glass cage...yikes), cockroaches, scorpions, and the biggest tarantula I've ever been near. It wasn't my favorite. Then We went into a skeleton room where there were tons of shark jaws (and anti-kill shark advertisements, which I loved!), a zebra skull, a hippo skull, and a stuffed emperor penguin. Next was world cultures, where we learned about Buddhism, Eskimos, Indians, and Africans. We went to Ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt. I have a few pictures of real mummys which totally scared me. I refused to touch anything Egyptian because I'm scared a monster will come take my tongue and eyes.
After finally being allowed to check in to the hotel, we changed and went to The Beatles Experience at Albert Dock. The tour took about 2 hours, and it is all under ground. They give you an audio set to walk through with, and you type in the code number you are at corresponding with a room and story. I learned that Ringo was not the original drummer, which I probably should have known. I was disappointed they skipped the murder of John Lennon all together, because I felt that it was an event that affected the world in a big way.
We had a lovely dinner at an Italian restaurant called Ask, a couple glasses of wine (well me that is...) and then went to bed. In the morning we checked out and hiked up a hill to the Metropolitan Cathedral with our backpacks on our backs. It was quite the workout, but well worth it because the cathedral was absolutely gorgeous but very modern. The big bells went off at 11 to announce the service ready to begin. But we got to listen to the children's choir practice before the service, and it sounded beautiful.
Then we caught the early train back to Sheffield while connecting in Manchester Piccadilly. I learned that my map skills and train skills are getting better and better with each city I visit. Morgan and I figured out to find a map of the city as soon as we got there instead of waiting the last day like we did in Dublin. See? We are blossoming into adults!
But Liverpool was great, other than being accused of stealing from two different stores and terrible service at the restaurants...I'm tellin ya, these people really love Americans....gosh, can't wait to get to Paris!
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