Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum

Fans,

It seems like ages since the last blog update. But only a week or so. On Tuesday night we caught up with Colin and Rachael for a few beers before they went north to Scotland, where they will be living for a few years. It was great to hear that we had a place to stay when we venture up that way, and likewise for them at our place when they come back down to London town.

We had a very full-on weekend. On Friday night we checked out another couple of pubs in our hood. The "White Horse & Bower" and "The Speaker" were both solid choices, good atmosphere and excellent service at the White Horse. I'd say we'll be back there before long. We then went 0/2 on London Indian. We were full of hope that the Indian restaurant round the corner from our place would be better than the crap we got from Tower Bridge a few weeks ago. It was, but not by a lot. No flavour, no spice. Kinda just coloured porridge-like goo posing as Indian. Disappointing.

On Saturday we went to Madame Tussaud's wax museum. Apart from the queue for over an hour (which we expected) it was amazing. We had a great time admiring the stunning likenesses of the dozens of wax figures and snapping plenty of cheesy photos. Some of the wax figures are incredibly life-like and almost a little creepy! Favourites...hard to say, but Megan was quite a fan of Sean Connery! Check out the photos below, but other stars not to make the cut here were Brian Lara, Shane Warne, Jonah Lomu, Pele, the Queen, Queen Mother, Diana, Princes Charles, William and Harry, the Beatles, and various other British singers, Hollywood stars, world and religious leaders etc etc and so on.

Worthy of a mention was Megan's stepping up to the penalty spot and slotting a goal past a virtual goalie, which gave her the right to lift the replica soccer World Cup! Frank Lampard should head down there and practice...oh and also worthy of a mention was the pole-dancing Britney Spears, whose chest actually moved to simulate breathing...

After taking about 50 photos, we headed to Chamber Live, where we had to negotiate our way through a series of dark rooms and corridors where several real life actors posing as serial killers were waiting to scare the crap out of us. It definitely worked, especially on Megan, who screamed the house down. Tim was worried she may faint or worse! There were loads of props of things like cages and body bags hanging from the roof etc and plenty of gruesome noises playing in the background and every now and then a "serial killer" would jump out from nowhere at us. Amazingly we survived!

We then went on a little trip through London's history in a little black cab, which was a lot less scary. Then our work was done. Later on Saturday afternoon, we managed to track down the now elusive old Routemaster double-decker red bus and we took a ride through central London. There are only a few of these traditional double-deckers left now and they only work two routes, mainly for tourists. It was a little bumpy, but we sure thought we were King of the Castle sitting upstairs.

After a spot of shopping we met up with Simon, Anthea and Pete, another Kiwi mate of Simon's, for some drinks and dinner in Kilburn. Very nice pub, although we were a little concerned with Pete's tales of being mugged and burgled on a regular basis.

On Sunday we headed north to Hampstead Heath. Hampstead Heath is a massive area of bush with the odd pond and grass clearing thrown in. It seemed to be a very popular spot too! We went on a big walk but probably still only saw half of it. Another place we will no doubt return to, perhaps with a frisbee. The shops in Hampstead also caught Megan's eye...







The Fresh
Prince












Brad
liked
Megan's
zip












The Beckhams














They put
Tom on a
step
so he wasn't
too small












Samuel L
Jackson
looking cool














Spidey
offering
Tim some
advice










The King
of Pop

The
Termin-
ator...

Megan's
favourite
















The
King












Jose Mourinho
looking happier
than normal















Tim
showing
Tiger how
it's done












Lance


















World Cup
winner

















Float like a
butterfly...
Sting like a
be-artch
















JT














Pole-
dancing
chest-
moving
Britney












Nelson
















Tim in
the
middle of
Hitler and
Churchill









Hopping
on the
"Route-
master"











Proud as
punch












The old
warhorse












Megan in
Hampstead
Heath










The
Heath












Big old
tree in
the Heath