Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Day Three of a Tale of Two Cities

This is a statue of George Washington, yes our founding father. We drove past this on the third day.
 This is a group picture of everyone after our meeting with  former member of Parliament Patrick Nicholls.Then we went to Trafalgar Square  and we saw a lot of neat things.
 This is one of the neat things I saw. Note the size and now look below.

 Here is a countdown to the 2012 Olympics.
 Here are some pictures from the Winston Churchill WWII rooms.
                           
Above is what the rooms of most of the people down in the war rooms slept in. Below is what Winston Churchill's rooms looked liked.

Day Two of a Tale of Two Cities

 The second day was a lot of fun the first thing we did was head to an acting class. In the acting class we did a lot of things that helped us work together as a team and improve our acting skills.
This was on top of a building, it is a little ballerina. It reminded me so much of my ballerina sisters.
This is a church and if you noticed the arch above the door is a beautiful picture. Below is a close up of it.
We saw that church on the way to our lunch with Henry VIII.
                                         Here is Henry VIII.
  Next we went to the Tower of London and here is a picture of my friends and I with a Beefeater. The Beefeaters are the guardians of the ravens. The ravens are guarded because there is an old legend that if the ravens ever go away the White Tower will crumble and a great disaster will befall London. After that we went to see "Wicked" the play and that was how we ended our day.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Day One of a Tale of Two Cities

 This summer I went on a trip with the People to People program to England and France for a two week adventure. Our trip began in England and the first thing we did was head to Runnymede. This is where the John F. Kennedy and Magna Carta Memorial are.
 This is me with the John F. Kennedy Memorial. The memorial and surrounding symbolic acre of land was given by Queen Elizabeth II to the citizens of the United States of America in 1965. It was designed by Sir Geoffry Jellico and is mantained by the Kennedy Trust.
 As we were heading to the Magna Carta Memorial we walked by this which I thought was really neat, below is the tree.

 Here is the Magna Carta Memorial which was designed by Sir Edward Maufe. It was erected in 1957 by the American Bar Association.








                                          After that we headed to Windsor Castle.


 This is a statue of Queen Victoria, while on my on my trip I saw many statues of her.
                              This is the top of a light post. I thought this was so cool.
                                   


 My leader told me that all the swans belong to the Queen and that if you harm a swan you will be breaking the law.
                                                  Only on the sidewalks of England.
                            Next we went to the British Museum and here are some mummys.


                Next we went to the London Eye and rode the 45 minutes ride around.

                                                     View from the top.
                                              Me with Big Ben in the background.

Monday, May 30, 2011

My First Post!!

I would just like to tell you why I am starting this blog and how I came to choose the name "My Adventure Book". I started this blog because I plan to travel a lot this summer and wanted to share it with everyone. I have chosen the name " My Adventure Book "  because of the Disney movie Up in which Ellie has a scrapbook of what all she has done that was an adventure.