Belated Blogging

Hi everyone,

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been busy doing the stuff I'm going to post about today. So, how 'bout I give it a go, eh?

On Sunday, we went to St. Paul's Cathedral (of course I had to bring something to read along with me -- a Yes Mag (science magazine) which apparently my parents received just before we left and saved it for a surprise at the 'appropriate' time. At St. Paul's Cathedral there was an organ recital which only happens on Sunday. But when I did listen to the organ recital, when I wasn't reading my magazine, the music was pretty good, actually.

That night we went to Stomp, the play where people make music out of everyday objects and make it pretty funny. In fourth grade, with my teacher Mme Rogers (who's now called Mme Bourne), we watched 'Stomp! Again' and it took place in hundreds of different locations and it was awesome. The show I saw was pretty limited in what they made music out of -- there were sinks, brooms, newspapers, stools, -- I forget the rest -- but it did happen to take up an entire hour and 45 minutes. The one I saw with Mme Rogers was so long, we only saw the first hour. I think the movie was supposed to be 4 hours long. Anyway, the Stomp we just saw in London was awesome and extraordinary and hilarious, and at one point with the sinks, inappropriate.

Yesterday, while my Mom (Gwen) was giving a talk to the British Food Studies Group at Westminster University (which was the reason we came to London), Mimi and I went to Nitrome. Nitrome is my favorite website in the history of my life (http://www.nitrome.com/). They work in a small office in an Old Firestation that has been transformed into an office building in London (which is why I cried when I found out we were going to London 3 months ago). We only got as far as the reception desk in the office building, but I was still really happy to be so close to Nitrome.

What happened after that is absolutely not important.

After the unimportant Mexican food encounter, we saw Billy Elliot, the musical about a 12 year old boy whose Dad wants him to do boxing but he decided ballet instead. Meanwhile his dad and his coworkers and friends are miners and they're on strike right now. The only happy ending is Billy Elliot is accepted into a gifted ballet school. Overall, it was an amazing musical, as good as We Will Rock You (and definitely longer).

Today, first we saw the Changing of the Guards at Buckingham Palace. I got right up to the metal fence, but I was right beside a big pillar so I wasn't able to see everything. I took around a hundred photos of it, and since I was able to stick my hand through the bars holding the camera, I pretty much captured the whole Changing of the Guards thing. After that we went to a lot of stores and the details aren't really important except I brought my book with me. I sat in the stores reading Alex Rider book 6 (my novel) and also got to buy candy.

Tomorrow we're leaving our apartment in London to pick up a rental car to drive away pretty early to drive to ..... THORPE PARK! It is an awesome amusement park with extremely intense rides that I am SO looking forward to. The ride I think looks best is X:/NO WAY OUT. It is about in the future where companies are trying to invent computers to run things but something went terribly wrong. You're hurtling on a colourful roller coaster in a 2 seater carriage. Did I mention you're gonna be hurtling through complete colorful darkness... Backwards?

Well my Mom has to do something now (I'm dictating to her and she's typing things out) so I'll tell her to put in the pictures now.

"Take it away, Mom!"

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