Dear London Town

Dear Class,

Today I went to Buckingham Palace to see the changing of the guards. I kinda don’t get it. All the soldiers did was march around and yell and did all these moves: put one hand on their shoulder, then the other hand on their shoulder, then they moved their gun and then they put their hands on their hips. It was kinda boring. The bobbies who rode on horses to keep the crowds back; that was cool. Next we went to St. James Park to have a picnic. I chased the pigeons.

After lunch, we went back to Buckingham Palace and had a tour inside of the Palace. It was cool except when I had to wait on my mom and Aunt Kate. My favorite room was the White Room because it had two secret doors. The we had tea in the Queen’s garden (or back yard). It was my first tea and I actually liked it. I also ate almost all of my Aunt Kate’s chocolate tart. I asked someone if the Queen has a swimming pool and he pointed out the part of the palace where the pool is. He also showed me where the Queen takes her dogs for a walk and where she likes to sit and read.

After tea, I rode in my first taxi so we could go to Covent Garden and the Transporation Museum. It had a scavenger hunt to find stamps all over the museum; I found all 13 but #1 was coolest because it was a rubber stamp and the easiest to push down. Then I bought two scarves in the market at Covent Garden before we went to dinner.

At dinner, I tried my first raw oyster and it was not very good. The rest of my dinner was excellent. I had a humongous side of peas with my salmon and chips (fries). The waitress said she likes peas, too, and that’s what she would get. We ordered toffee pudding for dessert but it was not like pudding; it was a warm, sweet bread.

Finally, we went to the theatre to see Oliver! Our seats were awesome. They felt like velvet and I got to sit on a gold, velvet booster seat; it felt very comfortable. There were a lot of children in the play. One of the youngest actors was a little bit older than my brother. He could do all these dance moves that were really cool. My favorite song was “I’d Do Anything” and I liked when everyone said “BOO!” to Bill the bad guy at the end ofthe play. When we were leaving the play, we went to the stage door and we saw a lot of actors come out. We saw the actor who played Bill. I “booed” him again and he stuck his tongue out at me. We also saw the actors who played Fagan, Nancy and the littlest boy who did all the cool dance moves. It was awesome.