London

On our first day in London we parked at a supermarket in Felton and took the train to Waterloo Station which was really big and busy. From there we walked straight to the London Eye,surrounded by hundreds of other tourists we waited in line then boarded glass capusle and spent half an hour up in the air looking at the great views of London especially Big Ben and Parliament being 135 metres off the ground. Though we did fry in our little glass house as the weather was so hot. We had cheese and bread in Parliament square next to tents and banners permanently protesting peace for Afganistan Troops. William had a wee chat the a african who told him never to jion the army and go play football instead. Westminister Abbey was impressive the big windows and masonary beautiful wethen went to St. James Park where we had second lunch with locals having their sunday picnics on the grass and worshipingthe lovely warm sunshine. We couldn't get over the unexpected hot weather! We took the tube to London bridge, it was very noisy and windy down in the station. We stopped at he Dungeons and met Sweeny Tod and Jack the Ripper and learnt all the history in a pretty gresome way, blood guts the lot.

Tower bridge was really busy and we joined the flow of tourists crossed over and passed the tower of London. We had chips on the lawn of the beautiful St. Pauls Catherdral then crossed another bridge over to the Tate Modern and Shakespere's Globe Theatre. We had cream cheese baps and chocolate raisens for tea beside a lake in Kensington Gardens.

Day Two, We watched the Changing of the Guard, Mum yelled at by an angry policemen for climbing on the gates for a better view. He was pretty quick to stop her because otherwise hflf the crowd would have climbed up for the better view. Lots of men in red coats and fluffy hats stomped and marched around with a band playing and there were lots of horses. It was a long cerermony and looked like alot of work for the police trying to control the crowds.

Afterwards we found our NZ friends staying in an apartment at Covent Gardens and then went with them to Hamley's Toystore-250 years old and seven stories of toys, games, gadgets and magic tricks. It was really amazing and all the demonstrations made it really unique. All the staff had a toy or a trick though some were still learning theirs. Johanna had to show them how to Hula with the hoops.

We were like the paparazi at Madame Tussauds wax museum every  famous person on the planet seemed to be there including Jonah Lomu. Favourites were definatly Micheal Jackson, Miley Cirus, Brittany Spears, Obama and Princess Diana. We soothed our sore feet in the cool water of the Princess Diana Memorial Fountaion before going home to sleep in the ASDA carpark the water was cold and numbed your toes it felt heavenly after a whole day in town with jandals.

Day Three, We got up earlier for a busy day at the museums but it turned out that nothing opened until ten so that was annoying. We went past Harrods and looked at the over the top dramtic window displays. They were so detailed the fitness clothing even had dummies of real exercise equipment and the dresses were surrounded in diamonds. We could have spent all day in the Science Museum but we had only been in one room (full of cool interactive exhibits, games and shows) and we had used up the morning! Next was the Museum of London where we learnt all about london from the Romans to the present there was so much history and hole rooms and movies on the plague and the great fire.Then we started having trouble with our transport tickets which was ruining our day but in the afternoon we went to the London Aquarium and saw massive sharks and a new rainforest section. We were intending visit some free art galleries open late but with our ticket cards stuffing up and costing us lots, we were very tired and a little stressed. After watching some amazing and not so amazing street performers we took the train back to Felton.

We have had a awesome time in and around London but will be glad to have a break in Europe and hopefully feel a bit more free and (Mum thinks) less Claustrophobic.