On Thursday the 4th April we went to London to go on the London Eye and see the London Aquarium. We got up at 8:20 to catch the train into London. We got breakfast from a croissant shop and a coffee shop called Costa. Dad had a cheese and bacon croissant and a mocha, Mum had a apple jalousie and some hot chocolate, I had a apple jalousie and some hot chocolate, (but I spilt most of it down my front). Daniel had a pain au chocolate and some hot chocolate, Jon had a cheese pastie and a bottle of orange juice, Bob had the same. All of it was delicious!

After breakfast we went to a tube station to catch a Circle Line to take us to Westminster. We walked over Westminster Bridge, and saw Big Ben.

We went to get our tickets for the London Eye. After that we went into the London Aquarium and got tickets. there were fish swimming around inside a real car!

The Aquarium was really cool, after we paid we walked down a passage and saw some riverfish there was a massive Pike some Barbels and Roaches. the river tanks were set like a real river the first tank had a waterfall going into the second tank, and the second tank had a waterfall going into the third tank etc.

On the other side of the river tanks there was a wall covered with facts about the River Thames, there was a picture of what would happen if the River Thames flooded.

The Atlantic tank was massive, there were conger eels, rays and some fish. It was such a big tank that there were places to look in at the bottom as well as all around the top. The eels didn't do much swimming they just lay down on big rocks. the rays were a brownish colour and swam really close to the bottom.

After the Atlantic tank we went to the Pacific tank it was massive as well. The sharks were really big, there were some huge silver fish with yellow eyes. There were also some rays. I kept on pulling funny faces at the sharks which made them come closer so Dad could take photos of them. This yellow ray kind of fish with black spots swam right across Daniel's face, startling him.

Next we went to a bit about coral, there were these amazingly bright coloured fish swimming around. We saw some Spotted Garden eels that were sticking out of the sand. They looked funny, I liked them.

There were some stonefish that looked exactly like stones. Me and Daniel had fun trying to see which ones were stonefish and which weren't. Their eyes gave them away a bit, if they shut they would look like perfect stones. The cuttlefish also camouflaged themselves to match their surroundings. There was one swimming next to a piece of rock and it had turned itself completely brown.

I went over to another tank it had these fish in it that looked like lobsters Dan came over and said they were crawfish, they were massive! There were some clownfish in different colours and some tiny brown seahorses.

We walked over to a big circular tank next, it was really dark. There were some jelliefish inside they seemed to be glowing. A tentacle was floating on the water.

Next we went to a tropical bit there were plants growing on the walls and loads of brightly coloured fish like tetras. Dad thought the Archer fish were amazing, I did too.

We walked down some steps through a passage into a room there was a tank in the middle and people (mostly children) were stroking the rays. I wanted to stroke them too me and Dan both stroked them and said they felt slimy but nice.

We went to the shop next, I got a dolphin ornament, Dan got a fish ornament, Jon got a window sticker and so did Bob.

After we had came out of the Aquarium, all us kids had an ice cream and everyone had a drink. Mum and Dad had a lager, I had lemonade, Kim and Bob had orange juice and Jon had coke. Me and Kim had mint choc chip, Bob had a strawberry which went everywhere and Jon had chocolate. We put two tables together to fit us all.

After lunch we went to queue up for the London Eye. I met a boy called Jack who had almost the same t-shirt as me. We slid along the marble bench to skip the queue, we met our parents at the end. We went on the same gondoler (carridge things) as Jack.

We were given a leaflet with pictures you could pull out. I saw Big Ben, St. Pauls, lots of sky srapers and where we started to queue up. When we were almost round to the begining there was a camera on the spiral staircase. When we were off we went to get our photo.

We caught the two trains home but we had to stand nearly all the way back to Elsenham, we got in to our car and went to Welcome Break and went home with a Kentucky and six easter eggs one for each of us.

By Kimberley-Ann (Aquarium) and Daniel (London Eye)