Madame Tussauds and St. Paul Cathedral

• On June 26th, I took my friend to the famous wax museum, Madame Tassauds, and St. Paul Cathedral. This was because we would have liked to visit these places this March but we couldn't. I had known that the admission fee for Madame Tassauds was very expensive, so I had bought a discount ticket on eBay in advance. It was a season-limited ticket and called '2 for 1 coupon', which means that we can enter for the price of one adult, though it still costs 25 pounds.
  
• As for St. Paul Cathedral which we visited first, both of us could enter for the student price. I had not expected her student ID worked because she was a part time student in another country. But the receptionist did not ask any questions about her card. St. Paul Cathedral was indeed magnificent; we could see many tombs of the well-known British in the crypt, such as the Duke of Wellington, Sir Christopher Wren, William Turner, and Lord Nelson. In addition, there were also in the same floor some memorials of famous people, like William Blake, Florence Nightingale and John Donn. I wish I could have taken pictures inside! There were lots of objects I wanted to capture. One of them was an allegorical painting by William Holman Hunt, The Light of the World, because I had already learned in the class of the graduate school that Charles Dickens severely criticized it; but I cannot remember the reason now. Despite his criticism, I was really impressed by the image; it was bigger than I expected from the copy I saw in the class, and seemed to be very special and significant. After looking around the ground floor, we went up 259 steps to the Whispering Gallery and 119 steps more to the Stone Gallery where we could have a panoramic view of the London city and shoot the scenery. It had been 24 hours before we left for Spain, and from that time on we could reserve the seats for the airplane, so my friend did it through the Internet with my mobile phone while having a seat in the Whispering Gallery. Thanks to that procedure, we could sit side by side in the plane to Madrid. After that, we went outside in the Stone Gallery and took some beautiful pictures.
  
• Exploring Madame Tassauds's exhibitions was really fun! We could see many famous figures there, from Shakespeare to Tom Cruise, and shot lots of funny photographs. This was the third time for me to visit the museum, but still I could really enjoy it. The wax dolls were lifelike, and the exhibitions were, of course, updated. The last time I went there, I remember that there used to be some Japanese figures such as the Sumo wrestler, Chiyo-no-Fuji, and the old prime minister, Shigeru Yoshida; but this time, I could not find any of them, though I thought that I might see a Japanese major leaguer, Ichiro, because he, in my opinion, is now worldly-famous. What surprised me most was the special exhibition for Michael Jackson, who had been dead just the previous night. They were playing his songs loudly and built a tribute corner for him, streaming some video clips background. I did not expected that they reacted to his death in this way so immediately. The horror room and a ride tour had not changed since I experienced them when I was twenty.