Well, today I took my little brother to London. He’s been loads of times before, but I thought I’d take him to see Buckingham Palace and Downing Street, etc. His name’s Joe and he’s gonna be 9 in August. He’s at a weird age where he refuses to stand still for more than about…3 seconds. Anywho. I figured since I never do anything for him, I’d take him out.
I have a problem with trains. I have to get on the train as soon as it comes in otherwise I get paranoid that it’s gonna leave without me. My brother, on the other hand takes after my dad (my dad worked on the London Underground for about 15 years) and is really comfortable around trains and likes to get on right at the end of the platform meaning we had to walk a really long way. I figured – me being the oldest and all – that I would just force him to get on with me near the end and that would be that. Apparently not. Joe decided it would be a good idea to run to the end of the platform by himself, leaving me to chase after him. Jesus that boy is fast. So we finally got on the train, made it to London unharmed and feeling okay, got off and made it onto the streets, we realised it was pouring down with rain. Great. I figured we should do something inside until the rain stopped – whilst my brother was saying ‘Hello, poops’ to passers-by – so we headed to Trafalgar Square to go to the national art gallery, the only free place I could think of XD So we enter the gallery, and Joe immediately tells me how bored he is, but I soldier on, proud of myself for thinking of this XD Take one look at ‘Sunflowers’ by Gogh, decide we could do better and leave.
By this time we’re quite hungry, so we go off to find somewhere to eat. Btw, I love street entertainers. They brighten up my day XD Zizzi has nice pizza XD Then we went to Buckingham Palace. We decided to see who could make the guard talk to us first. It started off with just waving, quickly progressing to us shaking our heads disapprovingly at him and then finally my brother started yelling at him. I decided it was time for us to quickly leave
We went to the big statue climbed it and then went to see the horsies XD Let me tell you, they were pwetty XD I stroked it and had a picture taken with it too XD But zomg, this guy with a sword came up to us and I got really freaked cause I thought he was gonna attack us.
So then we figured we should go see 10 Downing Street even though you totally couldn’t even see number 10 from the gates. Laaaammmme. We had to ask the policeman, who was quite good looking, to tell us where it was. Psh. Sooo not worth it. Also, Westminster Palace was a waste of time – not allowed in to see the Prime Minister apparently :/ So yeah.
Was a good day really XD I shall now leave you with a typical ‘Joe’ moment:
Joe: What’s a pleasure boat?
Me: What do you think a pleasure boat is, Joe?
Joe: A boat you pleasure yourself on?
KTHXBI.