Today we went to London with our friend Katie, her mum, Matilda, Mummy and I. Katie always got a completely different train to us unless it was the tube.
When Matilda, Mummy and me got off the train, we circled round a bit until Katie ran up to us saying, “Tilly, Tilly, Lavinia, Lavinia,” and then Mummy found Chris (Katie’s mum) and all went well.
When we headed outside, we looked around and found a large park with two zip wires and lots and lots of room to basically just play. Of course, that was not it, as there were slides, swings, a bungy-jump kind of thing, a strange swing next to the bungy-jump thing and loads of other things we didn’t even have enough time to go on.
Next we went to a museum and looked at all the old objects stolen by the English from Greece 🙁 The Parthenon was a large building perched on top of the Acropolis in Greece. It was dedicated for Athena, goddess of Wisdom and the Arts, until men from England stole its ancient sculptures and placed them in a London museum.
Once we had finished lunch (scones, crisps, sandwiches, a Creme Egg, and more) we went to the London Dungeon and guess what? Katie, who is quite scared of some things, and Katie’s mum, who doesn’t like pitch black, came too anyway! There was a rollercoaster, scary shops and courts and things and it was so cool! It was my third time there, and it was probably the best, too!
Next we went to the SeaLife centre to see some extra-cool fish and sharks and other amazing creatures. I even got to touch a real star fish – and almost a real crab! It was absolutely magnificent!
We found out some things about sharks and seahorses – but not happy facts at all. No. In fact, random people with the allowance to do it would get a shark and hack off its fin while it was still alive and then chuck the alive body back into the ocean to either bleed to death, die of starvation or get eaten by a different predator. The tasteless fin would then be put in a bowl of disgusting soup and eaten for no apparent reason. Seahorses would also be snatched from the ocean and killed for fake medicine that barely works. In around twenty years, if this goes on, the seahorses and sharks may soon be extinct.
Next we went to try and find the amazing restaurant – Masala Zone. Katie had some of a chicken burger, some chips, and a little bit of mango kulfi. Tilly had a thali with super-hot lentil and vegetable curry (when Mummy tried some, fire came out of her nose and smoke came out of her ears!). I had a whole big thali, with lots of little bowls of things: chicken saffron korma, potato curry, lentil and black-eye bean curry, rice and a pappadum. And I had a whole mango kulfi, finishing off Katie’s!
Citrus was a plump, green penguin Katie bought me. She was nice and fat with her black and orange penguin plump-buddies, until someone leant on her, pushing her tail into her tail and pushing all the oxygen inside her out of a pin-prick puncture somewhere around her body/head. This made her small head shrivell and her weeny flippers began to wither. Her funeral napkin was the cleanest ever, and her gifted presents (grave-goods) were the best made. She had a small pen-lid as an oxygen mask, a big, flowery hair-clip and a black hair-band to tie up her hair in the Afterlife. All of her best friends were there to say their words and to give her a good old send-off, as a flickering candle shone the light of Heaven and called Heaven to look after Citrus down by the Heaven’s sacred Heavens and that stuff.
Next we got tubes and trains and ran away home…