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Thames River and the London EyeMom and I were taking a walk down by the river Thames in London (near the London Eye) and I discovered that it was a very busy place. There were TONS of people there (maybe it was like a holiday or something). Well, if you’ve seen our house you will know that mom really likes to collect books. She has a knack for finding books. So there we were looking through books at a street book sale. Mom found lots of books that she liked but to my pleasant surprise she only bought one. The book was of an opera, “La Boheme” that we just went to in the Czech Republic that was in Italian and translated in to Czech. So we really didn’t know what was going on. I guess that is why she picked that one instead of all the other ones. Moving on, there were lots of people painting on the sidewalk. One was of the last supper. I remember that it was held down with blue tape. I thought it funny to paint on the street where it might get rained on or walked on. But I guess it’s a way to scrounge up a few bucks. There were lots of mimes and people like that. We walked past one girl that stood so still that I gave her a coin and then when I dropped it in her little money bag she started moving. I never liked clowns and stuff like that. They always scared me and when she did that it made me jump and I ran away.
We bought some peanuts there that were really good. They were fried in honey and sugar yumm…they were just great. We went up by the London Eye then and decided to go up on it. It was really fun. Each compartment holds 20 people. It has this little round bench in the middle. It takes 30 minutes to go all the way around and it never stops moving, so when you get on it’s moving and you kind of have to jump.
London Eye facts:
It stands 135 meters (443 feet) high. Designed by architects David Marks, Julia Barfield, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, Steven Chilton, and Nic Bailey, The wheel carries 32 sealed and air conditioned passenger capsules. The total weight of steel in the Eye is 1,700 tons. It rotates at a rate of 0.26 meters per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.6 mph) so that one revolution takes about 30 minutes to complete.
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Then there was this man that I called the paint man. He had lots of paint buckets all around him and if you gave a donation you could paint on him. It was a great idea I thought.
