Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card!

Today was all about books and libraries.  We were given library cards so we went to tour the Paddington library and the British library.  I only have one picture from today but it's not on my camera, therefore I'll have to post it later.  I can tell you, however, the list of amazing things I saw:

• The Magna Carta
• The Lindisfarne Gospels
• The Gutenberg Bible
• Caxton's Canterbury Tales
• Da Vinci's notes on architecture
• John Milton's commonplace book
• Handel's score for The Messiah; which, was written over the span of 24 days!
• Beethoven's violin sonata
• Jane Austen's notebook and writing desk
• Charlotte Bronte's manuscript for Jane Eyre
• Virginia Woolf's manuscript for Mrs. Dalloway (we'll be reading that later on this semester)
• The Beatles lyrics manuscripts

It was amazing to be so close to such old manuscripts that have had great impact on the world today.  It still baffles me that the piece of paper in front of me is the exact piece that existed 200, 300, 500 (or however many) years ago, and that it is the writing of people whose names I have grown up hearing and learning about.  I can't even wrap my mind around it.

Sarah, Courtney, Jordan, Mikelle, Lyssa, Caity, me, and Taylor