The Bodlein Library and the Museum of the History of Science

On Tuesday we had MORE guests - our grandparents arrived! 

On the day they came, we walked into town to have lunch then my grandparents and I went inside the Bodlein Library and did an audio tour. One hundred thousand new books come to the library every week. Every single book published in the UK comes to the library. 

We had a quiet day yesterday and today we took Nana to the Botanic Gardens and then she took me to the Museum of the History of Science. We did a tour and then we had a look around. Upstairs there was a giant cabinet with different instruments in it used for physics and electromagnetism. There were so many things. There was even a blackboard that Albert Enstien wrote on and it still had some of his sums on it. Some of the astronomers they told us about had different jobs in the day and looked at stars at night and still made many different discoveries.  

The Blackboard

The Cabinet with all the different instruments 

A panorama of the museum

 

 

The Story Museum

On Thursday we went to the Story Museum in Oxford. First we went to a room that had a throne that could talk. You dressed up in costumes and you had a board which said what you were dressed up as and the throne said it out loud! Like 'the brilliant commander of the wild wood'. You got to choose what you were.

Next we went to the room with the huge bed. Juliet and I played mums and dads with the dolls house and Olivia went to another room about other books. It was story time then so the man read us some books in the bed. 

Me dressed up

Olivia dressed up

A small bed - the big one was the size of the whole room

The dolls house 

Hampton Court Palace

Yesterday we went to Hampton Court Palace. We drove there and it took two hours. The first thing we did was do a kids audio tour of King Henry the VIII's apartments. The lady speaking told you that you were King Henry and she was going to give you a tour of your apartment. At the end you die. 

Next we saw a play with some people preparing 'Hamlet' for the King and Queen. When they were half way through the play the King and Queen come and ask to see the play when the actors hardly know their lines or what they have to do. 

We had our picnic lunch then went to the 'magic garden' which is like a kids' paradise. It had an aerial walkway and a giant slide for getting down, towers for  climbing, a magical forest at the back, a ball shaped tree house, a water play station, a sandpit, tents and a dragon that breaths fire (actually water). We got ice cream then walked to the hedge maze, the oldest in the world! We got lost a million times and never found the middle. Finally we went on an audio tour of the kitchens and bought feather pens. 

The Palace

The King and Queen in the play

The Magic Garden

On the Audio Tour

In the Maze

Mansions, Weddings, cycling through a thunder storm

Sorry I haven't been keeping up but we have been doing so much! On Saturday we went to three quarters of a mansion owned by our friends. We cycled along the river to get there. When we got there we played in their park-sized backyard with three cubbies, one treehouse, a trampoline, a swing set and a zip wire. Inside there were lots of floors, an indoor swimming pool and I counted ten ginormous rooms on the bottom floor. We went for a swim then had pancakes for lunch. We went for a beautiful walk in what looked like the countryside but was Oxford University park and then cycled home. 

The next day we went to a wedding. We had to drive to London to get there. We got home at about eleven o'clock at night but mum had packed pillows and pajamas so we slept all the way home. 

The next day we were so tired so we stayed at home but went for a bike ride to get some medicine for mum in the evening. When we were about one quarter of the way there it sarted to rain but it wasn't that heavy so we kept going. After a couple of minutes it got really heavy. We were almost there so we kept going. We got there and had to walk the rest of the way. The way back was worse because it was a thunder storm! We got home had dinner and went straight to bed.

The bike ride to our friend's house 

The walk to the park

In the car on the way to wedding - we're not in our wedding clothes yet

                  

                    The wedding

On the way home from the wedding

The dinner mum made after our bike ride in the rain - it was delicious we even had gravy! 

The Museum of Natural History

Today we probably went to the best museum in the world! We did our school work in the morning then went to the park and saw the friends who rented us the first house. We asked them about good museums and they said that we should go to the Pitt Rivers Museum which is right at the back of the Natural History Museum and the Story Museum. We caught the bus to the Museum. When we got inside we saw that is was really amazing. There were giant skeletons of almost every animal, models of animals, live bee hives and much, much, more. We spent at least two and a half hours there. When we got home we played with our friends for ages as it was one of our friends last day in England before they move back to France. We went to bed really late.

         Fluorescent minerals exhibit

         A 10,000,000 year old mineral

              Tyrannosaurus rex

            More animal skeletons 

                     Elephants 

The Simple Case of a Tooth Ache

I've been having this tooth ache so we went to the dentist in England. He said that I needed a cap over my tooth and it would look like I have a silver tooth. I felt very excited. The next day we went back to the dentist and it was very painful and I had to have a needle in my gum. I was a bit scared. I couldn't eat anything for the next three hours except for icecream. So we ate icecream as soon as we got home from our local shopping centre. Then I realised that the tooth hurt a lot when I ate so I couldn't eat solid foods. Dad bought me soup for dinner. 

Me after the operation

My silver tooth

Athens, Naples, and Finally Oxford

I know it sounds a bit confusing but that's actually where we went today! It started off like a normal day. We woke up, drove to Tel Aviv and our flight got delayed twice! We finally got on the plane

and after about an hour, they said that a little boy is very sick and we have to land in Athens. We landed then took off again and then the pilot said we had to stop at Naples because it was the end of work for the staff so they had to swap staff. They also said that an old lady was sick so we had to get some more paramedics on board. After an hour we took off again and FINALLY landed in London got our car and drove home. We were all so tired because it was meant to be a five hour flight and it was ten hours. Also because it was two in the morning.

                       Athens

                         Naples 

                  Naples Airport 

                  Finally home