London

Today we arrived in London! It was really exciting to see all of the things that you hear about on TV.  We dropped our things off at the hostel and headed out for the day. We walked across the Millennium Bridge and stopped at the Tate modern art gallery. It was ridiculous some of the things that can pass as being called art. We then walked down the road and came to the London eye. Dad, Ella, Anna and I went on it but mum stayed at the bottom as her claustrophobia kicked in. It was so cool being so high up and getting such a good view of everything. We got to see Big Ben, the parliament buildings and Buckingham Palace.

After the eye, we went to an outside bar called the Underbelly and sat in deck chairs in the sun.  It was lovely to finally have a day of sun. We soon left the bar because we had to get ready to go and see BILLY ELLIOT! I was so excited because I loooove the movie so the musical should be awesome as well. We decided to get the bus as we had left ourselves enough time to get there with all the traffic. Not. Most of the roads were closed off because the queen was going out tomorrow. The bus ride was painfully slow and only inched forward into a red light. After the gut-wrenching 45 minute trip we finally arrived practically running through the door. We had only missed 5 minutes. Thank goodness. The show was awesome! The sets were incredible as were the boys who played Billy. The choreography was amazing and you could tell how much time they would have put into practice because everything worked so perfectly. I would definitely go and see it again. It was for sure the highlight of London for me. We walked home and accidentally passed number 10 Downing St. We got an Ice cream and sat and ate it in Trafalgar square at about 10.30pm before tubing home.

Today we woke up after a sleepless night. The church bells rang every quarter of an hour! We had an all you can eat breakfast at our hostel and headed out for the day. We walked to Buckingham Palace to watch the changing of the guard and SURPRISE! We ended up getting to see the queen! She was coming back from being at the opening of parliament house. After having lunch in Camden market we scooted off to Madame Tussauds. That was awesome! It was really cool getting your photo taken with all of the famous people. Even Jonah Lomu was in there (; as well as having really cool wax people they also had rides. Mum and Anna went in this scary dungeon thing then we all went on this tour of London ride that takes you through the history of London.  After the rides, we went into the 4D movie that they had. That was cool, it had things that punched you in the back and spat out water in your face. (Bad example)  After that, we got the train home to Hitchin.