We actually didn't do a ton of museums when we were in London last September. The weather was so nice we ended up walking around a ton. Bob did the British Museum when I was sick for a day and we did do the Tower which was awesome. We were there for hours and didn't do the Crown Jewels. Plenty to see there!

We had this walking tours of London book that my folks got us that was a major source of inspiration. It looked fairly generic but the walks had a ton of macabre & offbeat features.

Here's our pics!

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I'm totally with Vortex not wanting to go with her friend and a stranger, though. I feel like for a trip like that you want to make sure your traveling companion and your interests intersect pretty well.

Just done, Teppy. My pain thresholds are odd. For some things, I'm not bothered at all. Other things go from 1 to 10 with nothing in between. My annual appointments are more annoying than painful. I love my doc. But it will be a different doc doing it tomorrow. I've heard good things about her - she did K-Bug's colposcopy.

I'm letting my anxiety get to me. I think I'll go for my lorazapam tonight and maybe half of one in the morning with the ibuprofen.

Suzi, I don't have one myself, but fwiw, I have heard it is less painful if you have had children.

I'm letting my anxiety get to me. I think I'll go for my lorazapam tonight and maybe half of one in the morning with the ibuprofen.

That sounds like a good plan. Mirena~ma!

Jilli, when in July are you in the UK?

Mid July. I think we get there on the 12th? (I don't have my phone near me, so I can't check.)

where you can sit at a desk and have the librarian bring you a big box of drawings to look through.

Including the original Winnie the Pooh sketches.

!!!

Right, two days at the V&A.

where you can sit at a desk and have the librarian bring you a big box of drawings to look through.

I did not know about this!

Just done, Teppy.

It's supposed to be less painful then, because your cervix is still soft, and therefore easier to get the Mirena through.

Also, like sj said, it's supposed to be less painful if you've had kids, again, because of something to do with your cervix.

I did not know about this!

I found out about it by accident. I was in the gift shop before leaving the V&A, and saw a Winnie the Pooh postcard. I went back to the security desk and asked where I could find it in the museum, and the guard kindly directed me to the prints & drawings room.

Oh, and Jilli, definitely get to the gift shop before it closes. I think the shop closed before the museum the day we were there, and I missed out on the gift shop, which is one of my favorites.

WRT the Mirena: I found the discomfort similar to having an IUI, which makes sense what with the fact that both require insertion past the cervix. Def recommend an ibuprofen before you go in.