back(b)logging

it's pretty late and i need to head to bed but i wanted to include some pictures from crossness pumping station last week, which is a victorian sewage pump house opened in 1865 and is pretty awesome. it's in disrepair now but they are in the process of restoring it and got one of the four 3-story engines up and running. there's a video of the place in action. also, nicole and i got to turn the one restored engine on which was cool because prince charles also did that a few years ago when they re-opened it!

(speaking of things that are up and running: my internet. somehow, i managed to delete my computer's ability to have an IP address. but the computer help people got everything back together so that's good.)

so, crossness:

wall featuring a lot of names for the toilet. tehe
this was in a prominent place in the museum area.

we also went to westminister abbey after this for evensong. i think i mentioned this but it was really cool. and while we were in there there was the first thunderstorm which really added to the effect of being in a gloomy old chuch!
on wednesday we went to the hunterian museum which is in the royal college of surgeons london. basically it was a giant collection of every kind of diseased body part or creature in i think 3,000 jars throughout two floors. it was really amazing to see. there was also a history of surgery thing with all sorts of pictures of people before/during/after surgery which was gruesome but cool as well.
later that night we met up with charlie who was visiting from brussels. he had read about john snow one of his classes so we went out there and then took some dumb pictures afterwards. they seemed necessary at the time.

no pump--no water--no cholera

thursday--headed to edinburgh!