Aidan 15, 15th & 16th June, London

Wednesday 15th June

Today I got up and Leo was letting me pat him. When Mum, Dad and Holly got up, Mum asked if we wanted to go to see the changing of the guard at Buckingham palace. So we went on two trains to get to the city of London,

 then we walked to St James's Palance and saw the Irish guards band inside the gates, and then a policeman opened it and the guards came out and so did the band. 

The band played while the guard were getting inspected. The other part of the Irish guards were guarding the Queen at the Palace so then the band and the guards marched down the mall to the Palace. We followed them and then the new regiment marched from the other side.

We had to wait for them to do the changing inside the Palace gates then they marched back to St James's Palace.  We saw the horseguards ride past too. We went to the park and fed some squirrels and we had hamburgers for lunch at a pub.

We then got a bus to go see some lemurs at one of the zoos.  

Thursday 16th June

Today we went to see tower bridge open. It opens if a boat that is too big to go under it needs to go through. Today there were three boats going through. To get the bridge open the operators inside have to open it and you have to book a time. The traffic that is going across the bridge had to wait for it to go back down. When it goes up the operators probabley press a button and the bridge will go up slowly.

 After seeing that we went to the museum of London Docklands.  In the museum were things they would have had in the docks. It was in an old warehouse. They would weigh the goods when they came in and weigh them again when they go out. They do this so they know how much came and in they will record it so they know if any of the workers had stolen any of it. 

Somewhere in the ware house they found a mummified cat and rat stuck behind some bottles.

Dad said they probably died because they were stuck for a long time. We left and went to get some lunch and went to a park for an hour and a half after that we got a a bus and came back home.