Elementary, my dear Watson

Day 66

Thursday we went to the Imperial War Museum. It's a really awesome museum.
They have a special exhibit on Ian Fleming right now, the creator of James Bond
The main exhibits are on the two world wars, with additional exhibits for the Holocaust, children in the second world war, and spy work. And then of course it is subdivided within those.

Here's a collection of some of the signs they had to guide people through the trenches in the Great War.
A model of what it was like down in the trenches

Another cool cabToday we went to Baker Street to see where Sherlock Holmes "lived." As you can see from the tiling in the Baker Street tube station, he may have been a fictional character, but he's exceptionally famous.

221B Baker Street: The fictional home of the great detective Sherlock Holmes. I'm solving the latest case.
They have a little museum here, and you get to see what Holmes' house would have looked like, and artifacts from the stories.

And here apparently is where Holmes shot Queen Victoria's initials in the wall. Because he can.
Watson
Holmes
They also had awesome wax figures of a bunch of the villains. So Lindsay and I thought it would be great fun to pose with them. Here I am looking shocked, and the revelation of this awful corpse.
Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, Dr. Moriarty. It was actually really disturbing to have to get close enough to take a picture.
Haha, apparently I was not meant to have a hare lip, because I don't do it very well. But I had to make this face for like 5 minutes while Lindsay tried to take it because they kept coming out blurry and then I'd start laughing, because you can't make that face and not laugh, and all the while people are walking by and staring at me. It was hilarious.

This one, however, is NOT a wax sculpture, and when he started moving Lindsay almost had a heart attack. However, Watson was very nice an posed with us.
Note the creepy phantom face in the window?
After the museum we walked around the surrounding neighborhood, looking for houses of famous people.
There is always construction and scaffolding going on in London. Always. Well, most especially in the winter when all the tourists are gone.
It took me a long time to figure out what this was. It is NOT strange brightly colored animals, but actually a load of laundry.
I've never seen so many giant recycling bins in my life. And they keep going past the tree.
Apparently you can rent a bus for your wedding.
What? Arizona's a cafe? Additionally, there is nothing Arizonan about this cafe, which sells English breakfasts, and says something about being an Athenian night club.