Saturday, August 1, 2009

A trip to London











We went to London on the train and Uncle Geoff met us at Euston station. We stayed at a bed and breakfast near Geoff's house and it was very odd because the man was very strange and thought we were Swedish and put Abba on at breakfast and told everyone we were from Sweden. The rooms were very small and the shower was in a wardrobe and the toilet was in a cupboard.

On the first day of London we went to see changing of the guard ant horse guard parade, Buckingham Palace and we also saw Big Ben and Nelsons Column. I enjoyed seeing the solders with the gun and I liked their bayonets.

The next day we went on the underground to the Tower of London and saw the crown jewels. Mum liked all the crowns and so did I. It was great seeing all the jewels, they were awesome. We saw the biggest diamond in the world. We went to the Bloody Tower where they use to torture people. One of the kings did not like his nephews so he locked them up in the tower. They were murdered and nobody knows what happened to them, but some people think they were buried in the walls of the tower. We saw all of Henry the 8th armor, it was so shiny and even his horse had loads of armor.

That evening we went to the theatre to see the Lion King. This was amazing and funny.They had life size elephants and giraffes coming down the isle of the theatre. I liked all the charterers, and they were all good at singing. There were some kids who were great at dancing.

On day three we went on a boat on the Thames and sailed past Big Ben, Tower Bridge and the Tower of London. We went to the Naval Museum at Greenwich. It had lots of pictures and we even saw some painting done of Captain Cooks first trip to New Zealand. We looked at the old queens house and it went underground. There was lots of different anchors, even one from a submarine. The buildings were really amazing and when we were there they were making a film of Gulliver's Travels.