Hazel in London

I’m in London! I moved here a month ago.  In the past few weeks I’ve been exploring London and have been looking for houses.  A week ago I just moved into my new house.  It’s kind of exciting because we are just moving in and we don’t really know very many people but we are meeting new friends.  Yesterday Charlie and Daddy went to look for a car, which  made me kind of excited because we’ve been taking so many busses.  Usually if we were in Boston we’d be excited to take busses, but now that we’ve been in London for three weeks we’re kind of bored of going on busses. 

My favorite thing in London so far is Big Ben.  If you look up closely you can see that it would be a long time to climb up, but if you look at it from far always you’d say, “Oh it’s just a clock tower.”  But for me, if you look up at the tippy top you can see those teensy teensy windows that you can look out from and see almost all of London.  I haven’t been up there, but I’m pretty sure that it would look like that if I did go up there.  I actually did see a view of London on the London Eye.  We went on Charlie’s birthday.  We tried to go on my dads birthday but it was getting fixed.  So instead we went to the tower of London for the first time.  We got to see the crown jewels.  My favorite was queen Elizabeth’s crown.  One crown had a huge jewel on it, as big as my fist and it was super clear.  You have to go on a moving sidewalk so that no one steals the crowns, but' I’ve never heard of anyone stealing the crowns and I’m pretty sure that no one dared to.  (I think this is the best blog post I’ve ever written).

We’ve ridden on a lot of public transportation.  I’ve been on the tube a lot.  In fact, once I was so bored on the tube that I started spinning around on a pole.  I spun around and around and around until our stop.  I was super dizzy.  Momma told us not to.  Now there are lots of rules on the tube!!!!

We lived on Baker Street when we lived in London (before we moved into our house).  I liked living right in the city, but I do admit, I don’t REALLY like living in the city.  We had to go on the tube everyday and sometimes it gets a little tiring. 

I went to the Victoria and Albert museum.  We’ve been to lots of museums.  One was a science museum that I loved.  We had a rocket show that we were just in time for and it talked about what things it needed to make fire and stuff like that.  Science stuff.  It was very cool.  The Victoria and Albert museum was actually an art museum, but at the very tippy top floor there’s a place where you can dress up in things they used to wear.  So this is me putting on a thing that goes under your skirt so that it gets all poofy.  And, on the top you can see that I’m wearing something that makes me look more skinnier.  That’s what ladies used to wear.  I don’t remember what it’s called, but I know it’s poofy.  

ON the first day in London we tumbled onto a Double Decker bus for the first time.  When we got off, straight ahead we could see the Lions of Trafalgar Square.  It was so exciting, it made me feel kind of weird, I was thrilled because I couldn’t believe that we were really in London, for the first time in our lives (well, not for momma).