Monday, April 23, 2012

Charlie’s London Adventure

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I live in London now.  I’m renting  a house.  We’re staying there for six months.  This is when it was snowing in England.  It’s very lucky to have snow in England.  That’s what I really liked about it. 
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This is a funny picture that we took when we were in London.  I like it because my sister Hazel, she’s the British soldier and she’s like standing on her tippy toes trying to reach the place where your head goes through.  I like Paddington Bear.   This is a day we went into London for homeschooling.  We were on our way to the British Museum where we saw some Mummies.  It was super cool. 
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This is one of my favorite pictures because I like the view how it looks like it’s kind of tilting down and going to fall over on you.  This was on my birthday when we were going on the London Eye for my birthday.  We were going to go for my dad’s birthday, but it was getting fixed so instead we went for my birthday.    When we got on and you looked out the window it looked like you were going to fall down into the themes river.  We saw Big Ben, we saw the Tower Bridge, we saw the Gherkin, we saw the tallest building in Europe.  It was super fun, way funner than I expected.
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This is a really cool picture because it’s of me and my sister Hazel by the tower bridge.  We really wanted to see the draw bridge open but we didn’t because a big boat didn’t come through. 

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This is the engine room that is in the Tower of London.  And one of them actually is working.  It’s super cool because you can see where the pistons go bang push blow and it’s really cool to see it because it’s like , it has like lots of gears and stuff and I like gears, so to me it was really fun to see.  I knew how it al worked, I even taught a little bit to my mom and Hazel.  I’ve been listening when my dad taught me about engines, that’s why I know so much.
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This is one of my really favorite pictures because it looks like it’s twisting all the way down, it looks like a rocket ship too, it’s like you’re walking up a big rocket ship.    I had a dream and it was about a space ship that looked exactly like this but instead of stairs it had a ramp and on the sides of the walls it had doors that were like compartments.  That’s exactly what it looked like, but it was a ramp up.   This staircase is walking up the steps of the Monument of the fire of London.  There were lots of steps, I got a certificate for walking up it, but I can’t remember how many steps it was. 
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This is one of my really favorite pictures.  It kind of looks like you’re in an airplane, but you’re really not in an airplane.  It’s really brick with moss on it.  It’s really cool because it looks like you’re really far above and those are fields and trees.  I took this picture by myself with my moms phone.  It’s outside my house. here.
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This is me and my little brother Peter.  It’s when we were at one of our favorite parks in London (Holland park) and we were being spinned around in this net thing.   I really like the parks in England because there are lots of fun stuff, like at this park, there was this think and you’d grab the rope and it was like swinging across the canyon and there was a big rocket ship you could climb up. There are also lots of Zip Lines in the playgrounds'. 
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This is me and my sister and my dad by the London Eye on my birthday.  I like this picture because it’s like a view of the London eye and me and my sister and my dad.  It’s like two things put together in one picture.
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This is when I was going to a wrecked down castle and what you can see is that I’m in a little house thing, but that was really their oven I think.  And I pretended that it was my house.  This castle was in Wales.  I loved it, it was the coolest thing in Wales.  It was cool because it was all wrecked down and you could climb wherever you wanted.  And in that castle it had a real cave, everyone was scared, except for me.
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This is me at another castle, at Pembroke Castle.  This was a cool picture, I think, because I’m pretending that I’m a knight and I’m shooting through the wall.  I would really like to be a knight, use swords and stuff.  And I really got to shoot a real bow and arrow and I shot it right in the bulls eye.  It would be really hard because you had your sword which was really heavy and your shield which was really heavy and your helmet which was really heavy, and your chainmail which was really heavy and your armor which was really heavy.  Boys started to learn when they were 12 to be a knight.   They had to hold out plates for the king to feast on for more than two hours.  That would make them super strong.

It’s really fun living in England because there are so many castles and museums and really famous places.  So far my favorite is the imperial war museum because it has planes that you can go inside of and it has tanks and just very cool stuff like that.   My least favorite thing, guess what?  The Founding Museum.   It was just too sad for me.  But it was kind of cool how you could dress up.
I don’t want to stay here forever, I really want to go back to Boston cause I want to see all my stuffed animals and my diamond and my Legos and my toys and my bed and my good friends and lots of things like that, and my house and my bike and my swings and my dads motorcycle. 
I do like the adventure, from a 1-10 I like it about a 6.