London miscellaneous day

Saturday we went to London with our friends Becky and Mike (Becky works with Jacob) and did lots of miscellaneous things we've wanted to do. We started at the V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum) where we saw lots of Rodin sculptures and other really fabulous art. The above sculpture is Giambologna's Samson Slaying a Philistine.

We also went to Harrods, one of the largest department stores in the world with over a million square feet. The store contains some pretty high-end stuff, including these cupcakes we enjoyed. (The two non-Oreo ones are peanut butter and rocky road--the Oreo looked yummy, plus the guy in line in front of us highly recommended it, so we got 2. They were delicious.)

We spent a little time in Hamleys, one of the largest toy stores in the world. This dinosaur was made entirely of these little packing-peanut things.
I had already been to the Abbey Road pedestrian crossing (featured on the Beatles Abbey Road album cover) with my brother Nick, but Jacob and Becky & Mike hadn't been. And we've been hearing reports that they'll be (re)moving the crossing due to traffic concerns. The traffic actually was crazy, and if I had been trying to drive that road I would have been really annoyed at the pedestrians stopping in the middle of the road for photos.

After Abbey Road we went to another Brazilian restaurant, this time a pizza place called Gostosa Pizzeria. Jacob was really excited that they had a catupiry pizza, which includes a Brazilian creamy cheese. He was very disappointed that it tasted nothing like it does in Brazil. But the rest of us found it delicious. For dessert we had a banana pizza with lots of mozzarella cheese--very tasty. (It's what Becky is eating (and talking about) in the below photo.)