London

It is great to be in England and get to go to London so much! On our way out of the underground we decided we couldn’t go without riding the London Eye, you have a good eye sight from inside of the huge jars that you are in. The London Eye is a humongous ferris wheel and it moves so slow that sometimes I even forgot we were moving. We got a good sight see of Big Ben. There is a giant penguin statue that I thought was neat. A little bit of the London Eye is right above the water way so you either see a giant penguin under you or you see the water way! After that we took a good chilled walk to Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth the thirds home. It was also the place where the big wedding reception of Princess Kate and Prince William took place. Last but totally not least we went to Shrek the musical. All of the scenes had one funny thing at least. The way they made the dragon fly was amazing. Donkey was a hoot!

Origami

I went to the Bistro with a lady named Julie. She taught me how to make origami boxes! It was super fun, especially with a hot cocoa on the side! There was a really fun story that goes along with making the boxes and if you watch the video you will find out what it is. After the video is over will you please try and see if you can make one so I can see!! P.S. Get a piece of good strong paper ready.

Brussels

This week I went to Brussels which is inside of Belgium. It is known for its chocolate and I will tell you what, I had a good amount! The chocolate store we went to is super close to the Grand Place, the way I always say it is wrong and I call it the Grand Palace on mistake! It is super beautiful. Brussels is also known for comics and we went to a really neat museum about that stuff. It had a lot of Smurf things in it because the man who created the Smurf comics was from Belgium. All texts in the museum are in French, Dutch and a few were in English. The coolest thing that we went to was the Atomium. It is made of tubes and 9 spheres, but giant ones. I had a really good dish of spaghetti with fresh parmesan cheese that was in a really neat bowl like a medieval pot, my brother had the same and my mummy had duck breast. After lunch we took a tour of the different spheres. In one of the spheres kids can sleep overnight in there! They sleep in mini spheres that are inside the big sphere! To get out of all of the rooms you would have to go through the tubes! On a whole separate thing we decided to go to the E.U. (European Union) Parliament. It was really huge and had some really neat chairs in it that were pink, green, yellow, blue and maybe a few more that I didn’t realize were even there. But that is not all, because they had a really neat area that looked like a disco room with all the lights and colors and it was awesome! The European Union is practically like a giant government and there are many buildings of the European Union in Brussels. Even though we now have had the trip gone by, we still have speculoos to eat that we bought in Belgium to remind us of our wonderful trip we took with good friends.

Waterloo

We went to Waterloo in Belgium! Waterloo is famous for the battle of Waterloo. There was a really neat Wax Museum and inside of it we saw what the soldiers would have looked like. Hut two three four! It was super cool and I think that whoever is reading this would have loved how neat it was. The people who worked there dug up artifacts from the war. There were skulls and things. Before we went through the Wax Museum we went out to “Lion Hill”, and to get to it we had to climb up 226 stairs! Climbing up to the lion was awesome and it was really cool on the forty-second step because it said Canon. It was in a booklet that taught you more about the battle. So if you ever go anywhere close to it please just count up till you get to the 42 step and look to your left, I shouldn’t tell you anymore!

Snow Day

We have snow! It is so fun to sled in the snow here especially on the steep hills in the gardens. One time whenever I was going down really fast I almost ran into the bushes. Another time I really will admit it I just toppled. Whenever Brock and I stepped out into the snow we worked on a fort. It looked really awesome. On the front lawn of Harlaxton, Brock made a snowman and he named it Billy Bob Joe. I’m also posting a picture of where I live. This is the Carriage House.

War Horse

Brock, Mum and I took turns reading pages out of the book War Horse. After we finished the book (that was really exciting) we went and saw the movie. Then we saw the play in London. It was awesome looking at the horses on the stage. They were not real but looked like they were. The horses were made out of wood! It was really good whenever Joey (the horse) got raised by Albert (the boy). They showed Joey growing up and the horse sculpture was broken in two and out came a new horse that was larger like Joey had grown up. Once he was about to go to war he met up with a horse named Topthorn.

Wales

Blue whales are the largest mammal on Earth. But we saw a different type of Wales! We went to Cardiff Castle and the Animal Wall. The iron doors that we walked through to get inside were huge. Inside of Cardiff Castle we saw a huge catapult called a Trebuchet. It was right next to a tunnel that Brock and I ran up to get inside of and see it. Whenever we did we walked a little. Then we passed what the kitchen would have looked like, nothing like what we have now. It was neat to look out of tower holes that the soldiers would have shot through. Whenever we were about to climb the tower Brock saw something that looked totally creepy, or at least to walk up! It was a rocky and very bumpy staircase as you might assume. It would have been useful though if you wanted a good shot. When we walked out from the really ‘cool’ Cardiff Castle we headed toward the Animal Wall. It had a vulture, bear, kitten and much more.