Friday – After arriving in London today and making our way to Grandma Rachel’s on the train, we had a good dinner with her and a quiet night.
Saturday – I had a quiet day with my family and Grandma Rachel. Everybody was on the computers except for me. It was hard to get a minute to myself. But I lived.
Sunday – Today our friends Tori and Randy arrived. They were tired from their long trip, but we had tea and biscuits when they got to Grandma Rachel’s and we had a quiet evening.
Monday – This morning we got on the train in Bromley and made our way to Victoria Station in London. Then we took the underground to the Tower of London. The thing I really at the Tower was seeing all of the suits of armour. After that, we went to ride on the London Eye, a very big ferris wheel that takes exactly 32 minutes to go all the way around. Instead of two-person car, you ride in a glass chamber that can old almost 15 people. It was almost night time, so we could see Big Ben the clock and the Houses of Parliament from the chamber. I really liked it. Then we took a black London cab to Piccadilly Circus where we had tickets to see The Phantom of the Opera. The Phantom of the Opera has a chandelier that rises up and crashes into the stage during the story (don’t worry, no one really gets hurt). My mom had a very bad headache so she had to sit outside for the second half of the show. I was sorry about that.
Tuesday – Today we explored in Bromley and got everyone ready for leaving on Wednesday.
Wednesday – This morning, really early, my dad got up and took Tori and Randy to the airport to fly to Belgrade to be with Steve and go to school. My mom and sister and I went to London on the train and met my dad there. We had lunch and then went to the airport to fly to Egypt. It was my first time on a jumbo jet. I got to see the top. I didn’t get to go sit in it because I was in coach class. But it was very cool. When you look out of the window of the plane, you can’t even see the whole wing because it is so big. It takes at least a minute to take off. It needs a very long runway to takeoff and land. When you have three rows, the outside rows have three seats and the center row has four seats. We were all in the center row. All of my family in a row. We got these little games from the flight attendant for the trip. They even had the batteries with them. And also a little backpack to put them in. Also there was a sketchbook and pen. On the plane, I watched some videos on a screen in the back of the seat in front of me. I watched Wallace & Gromit, The Curse of the Were Rabbit, and Cartoon Network. It made lots of the time go by. For the rest of the time, I drew in my sketchbook. The flight was exactly four hours and twenty-three minutes. We flew on British Airways, a very British way to fly.