LONDON BLOG #1

     This weekend, Me, Levi and my Mom are going to London. Friday we all packed our bags. We each packed a backpack, and that is all that we took. We did not take any roller bags because it would be to much to carry. All that we needed was 2 pairs of clothes, and a toothbrush, so we all carried everything in our backpacks. Friday, Oma made dinner at 5 PM, it was fish. It was pretty good, and we were all ready to go at 6 PM. We got a Taxi right after dinner and said goodbye to Oma. She was going to stay all by herself at home. It took about an hour to get to the airport. We were going to fly into the London Luton airport.

     We got to the airport after about an hour, and went to a waiting area, because we were 3 hours early. Our flight was at 9:50 PM and we were there at around 6:50 PM. The airport had free wifi so that was good. At about 8:30 PM, we walked to our gate, which was 105, and we waited to board. We boarded around 9:30 PM, and we took off. The flight was about 1 hour long, and I watched The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2. I had downloaded it on Netflix, and I could watch it without Wifi. We got into London Luton airport at about 11:20 PM, and we took a taxi to a nearby hotel called the Ibis. It was a nice hotel, and the room was nice. Here is what the Ibis hotel looked like.

        We all went to bed after brushing our teeth. In the morning, at about 8:30 AM, we woke up, and Me and Levi went downstairs to checkout what they had for breakfast, since it was not included. We decided to eat there, they had a pretty good verity of food, including sausage, bacon, hash browns, toast, cereal, croissants, and Nutella also. They also had these machines that would make you any type of coffee, or a hot chocolate drink. This is what my plate looked like.

         We had a ton of food, and grabbed some chips to take with us. We left the Ibis hotel and started to walk toward the nearest train station to take into London. We got to the train station and got our tickets. Then we boarded the train that would take us into London. We took the train until we got to St. Pancras, then took the tube to Piccadilly Circus, where we were going to see the Ripley's Believe it or Not attraction. Levi did not know where we were going so it was a surprise to him.

     
            We got to Piccadilly circus, and got off of the train and walked up the stairs until we were up on the streets. We looked around and it was right next to where we exited from the underground. We walked across the street and went inside. There was a big sign, and some statues. There was a huge gorilla made of metal shards, and there was a statue of the tallest man ever to live.

       We were instructed to go up to the 5th floor, and we would start on the 5th floor and then do each floor and go down from there. There was a lot of weird stuff. There were cool pictures made of things like candy, keys from a keyboard, broken CD,s and other stuff. There was a car that was made of 12 miles of yarn, and other weird stuff also.

This made me look like I had no legs

 

Abe Lincoln made all out of keys from a keyboard. 

        We went through, and there were these sculptures that were really small, so small that you had to look at them through a microscope. They were as thin as a human hair, and you could barely see them with your bare eye. There was also a mirror maze, and a black hole. We could not do the mirror maze the first few trys, but we got it eventually. The black hole was one of those things where you walk on a walkway and a huge cylinder spins around you so it feels like your turning. It looked like this.



      We walked through the hole attraction and saw all of the cool stuff. Then, we walked down to Waterloo bridge because my Mom was going to go see a play at the Aldwych Theatre called 'Beautiful' and Levi and I were going to see Rogue One again at BFI Imax which had the biggest movie screen in the UK. Once we got to Waterloo bridge, we all walked to the Movie Theater since my Moms play didn't start until 2:30 PM and it was 1:30 PM. We walked into this tunnel to get to the entrance of the movie theater.

         We walked inside and got the tickets for Levi and I. There was a nice waiting area that had couches. We sat at a couch and took a rest since we had walked a lot. My Mom left around 2 PM to go to her show, because it was back across Waterloo Bridge. We sat at the Couch and waited until about 2:30 PM to go up to the movie theater. The movie started at 2:45 PM. We walked in and the screen was huge. It covered the whole wall of the front of the theater. We walked back and grabbed our seats which were in the 5th row from the front.




      The screen was very big. It was also in 3D so it was awesome. Me and Levi watched our movie, and we got done at about 5:20 PM, and Mama was already at the Movie Theater waiting for us because her show ended about 30 minutes before we got done. We walked out of the Theater and I got a picture of Levi with a star-wars guy.

 After that, we walked out of the BFI Imax theater and walked to the tube. We took the tube to North Greenwich which is where the O2 theater is and where our house would be for the night. Once we got there, we dropped everything off, and then took an Uber back to The Ambassadors theatre, because my Mom had another surprise for Levi and I. We got to the Theatre and then we saw the sign for 'Stomp'. I did not really know what it was but my Mom has seen it twice before. This is what the stage looked like.


       There was a lot of pots and pans tied against the back wall. The show started and they came out with brooms, and they hit them against the ground and stuff, and it would make a cool rhythm. They used a ton of different things to make cool rhythms like garbage cans, kitchen sinks, and they used the pots and pans on the wall to use as drums. It was a really awesome show! After the show we got some pictures in front of the signs for 'Stomp'.

        After the show, we walked around and decided to go to a random restaurant called Bella Italia. It was an Italian Restaurant and it had a lot of really good food. I decided to get a Pizza that had different Italian meats, and salami on it. It was very good! I ate 6 pieces of my 8 piece Pizza. Levi also got a Pizza, and my Mom got a caprese salad.

        After we were all done eating, we all got some ice-cream. My Mom got 2 scoops, I got 3 scoops and Levi got 4.  Me and Levis icecream came in huge glass cups. They looked like this. 

       Me and Levi did not finish our ice-cream. We took our leftover Pizza to our house. We took an Uber back to our house and went to bed. 

(PART 1)    January 28, 2017 (SATURDAY)