London by Kayley

A couple of nights ago,we arrived in London and we were all really exited to finally leave Spain and even more exited to go to London.

The flight was about an hour long and I spent most of the flight looking out the window at the clouds and land far below wishing we would land in London already. When there were no clouds below us and towards the end of the flight, we passed over an island, a gigantic peninsula, some more ocean, and, finally, England. I new it was England because the plane was loosing altitude. Suddenly, there was a thick layer of clouds below us. When we hade passed through the clouds and were on the land side of them,the first city lights were just turning on and it was still light enough for me to see neat fields. A little while later when it was dark, I thought I saw London because I thought I remembered a winding river of lights from the beginning of Peter Pan. By the time we landed, it was dark. We arrived in London at 10:05 pm. It was 13 degrees Celsius and sprinkling. Our spirits were soaring.

We exited the plane by stairs into the open London weather and, after baking in Spain, the chill wind and rain was really refreshing. We went through the airport pretty quickly and took a bus to the Europcar rental car place and picked up our car. Since the steering wheel is on the right side and all the controls are in weird places, Daddy took a little while to figure everything out. We were of to find the Holiday Inn Express. On the way, we joked about driving on the left side and every thing else.

My first couple of hours in England were probably some of my best. I haven't been disappointed with England yet, even though I had really high hopes for England. After a night at the Holiday Inn Express, we drove to Stonehenge. The drive took about twice as long as it was supposed to take because daddy drove in circles trying to go the right was on the highway. So we spent a relaxing couple of hours at Stonehenge and hopped back into the car to drive to London. Stonehenge was smaller than I had thought it would be, but the countryside was beautiful.

In London, daddy checked into our apartment while we sat in the car. The apartment is maybe three times the size of the Paris apartment but very bare, but we were right next to a street with a bunch of shops on it. So we're pretty close to a shopping street but we were not very close to the Thames and all the sites. The next day we walked to parliament and the big Ben, crossed the river and looked at the London eye, parliament and the big Ben. After walking along the river for a little while we visited Westminster Abbey which has lots of interesting history behind it. And then we took a nap in Hyde park and walked home. Since we moved really fast we were all really tired so I wasn't really thinking about anything.
Two days ago we saw two museums: the Victoria and Albert museum and the British museum. My favorite part of the V&A museum were the seats. They looked like hour glasses and you can spin in them. The rest of the museum was not particularly interesting for me. We only saw the highlights in the British museum because we were all really tired.
Yesterday, we went to the White Tower and the fortress around it which was a pretty big space. Since I am really tired, I can not remember it very well. But the one exhibit I remember was the crown jewels. The crown jewels were scepters, golden balls whith crosses on them that I don't remember the name of and some magnificent Crowns. Queen Elizabeth the 2nd's crown has three gigantic jewels: a diamond, a ruby and a sapphire and a bunch of other smaller jewels but the three huge stones were about three inches in diameter. After seeing the White Tower we hopped on a boat to go up and down the Thames. Then, we walked to the war museum and by that time my brain was mush.

- Kayley