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Hello again! Miss this fabulous blog yet? Well you should! In this edition you'll find out about the fabulous   London Museum Of Natural History! 

First we (I was there with my Aunt Bonnie and cousin Dow. Dow, who is my age, and I lived in London at the same time - when we were 2 - 5 years old.  Now she lives in Geneva, Switzerland and she and her mom rendez vous'ed with us for this trip) went to the favorite exhibit from our past, THE DINOSAURS! Unfortunately many of the school groups had the same idea so we decided to check out the mammals. The mammals exhibit was interesting and informative. Did you know that some scientists argue that a panda bear is actually more like a raccoon then a bear? The majority of scientists however, agree that the panda is a bear and the red panda is a relative of the raccoon's. There are also over 20 kinds of bats and they are the only mammal that can fly.

Then we couldn't stand it any longer. we had to see the Dinosaurs even though there were a ton of people - just too many childhood memories. First we walked up steps onto a sort of metal catwalk. On the floor were many dinosaur skeletons, there were also many in the air. At the end of the cat walk, we found ourselves on a ramp. but we could only see what was behind us not in front of us. This was due to a large wall covered with t-Rex facts, for instance the t-Rex was tall enough to ride a double decker bus, and the t-Rex weighed about out as much as 30 2nd graders. then suddenly we heard a very loud "rrrrrrrrrrrrroooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" as we turned a corner we saw it, A LIFE SIZE TYRANNOSAURUS REX! it was about 24 feet tall, with arms that were about 1 foot long.

Up next was the Darwin Center. In the Darwin Center there are over 100 scientists at work, trying to use different pieces in the museum to find out what starts, spreads and stops diseases like malaria. they are also at work trying to think of names that fit different species.

I hope you enjoyed your visit! Please click on this great virtual tour of the London Natural History Museum:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdQDm4gdSOc



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And this afternoon we are off to The Cabinet War Rooms!

Dear Followers,

Welcome back, or in the case of my class, welcome! If you have come to this site by accident, then read on since I assure you it's better then the site you were trying to get to. For the next week or so I, Simon David Ace Grossman, will be blogging about the trip to London that  me and my mother are on. Please note that I am writing this on the 25th of March 2013 so if you are reading this in the year 500,000 AS(After Simon) trying to find out about my early life, I am NOT still on that trip. Below i am going to post some photos from our 1st and 2nd days.

In the food court at Logan, we noticed that up on the wall were these signs for many major cities. It'f funny to think that America is wider then the Atlantic ocean.

In the Victoria and Albert museum  there was a very cool screen that allowed the user to create their own coat of arms. if you are in my class, then ask Ms.Adams to show you the one I made for the class. The motto in Latin means "through effort to the stars" I have the same motto on my coat of arms which you will see below.

This is my coat of arms. I worked hard on it so enjoy(or else, DUN DUN DUN).

These are pictures of models of the Globe Theater. They are, hilariously, IN the Globe Theater. Humans (snort). The Globe Theater we were in was the 3rd globe. It was where many of Shakespeares plays were preformed.  It was originally built for Shakespeare in fact - the the late 1500's.

I shall now tell you the great Chronicles of the Globe.

The 1st Globe, burned down. they were in the middle of a show, and the King of England was part character in the show. A cannon was shot to salute the king, but the technical people must not of positioned  the cannon quite right, and boom bang whiz ( or woop zoop sloop) the cannon hit the roof and the roof was on fire. Since the roof was made of thatch the Globe burned down quickly - with over 2000 people in the audience. Nobody was hurt but one poor mans britches caught on fire - but dont worry, he had a bottle of beer handy and used it to put out the fire. He ruined his britches but he saved his life.

Today we are off to the Natural History museum.  Keep reading as i will post about it tomorrow.

Dear followers,

welcome back! or in the case of my class welcome! if you have to this site by accident, then read on since i assure you its better then the site you were trying to get to. for the next week or so I, Simon David Ace Grossman will be blogging about the trip to London that  me and my mother are on. please note that I am writing this on the 25th of march 2013 so if you are reading this in the year 500,000 AS(After Simon) trying to find out about my early life, i am NOT still on that trip. below i am going to post some photos from our 1st and 2nd days.

in the food court at Logan, we noticed that up on the wall were these signs for many major cities. its funny to think that america is wider then the Atlantic ocean.

in the Victoria and Albert museum  there was a very cool screen that allowed the user to create their own coat of armor. if you are in my class, then ask Ms.Adams to show you the one I made for the class. the motto, in Latin means "through effort to the stars" I have the same motto on my coat of arms which you will see below.

This is my coat of arms. I worked hard on it so enjoy(or else, DUN DUN DUN).

These are pictures of models of the globe theater. they are, hilariously, IN the globe theater. Humans (snort). the globe theater we were in was the 3rd globe. i shall now tell you the great Chronicals of the Globe.
The 1st globe, burned down. they were in the middle of a show, but it required the king of england. so what do they do? they get the king of England! a cannon was shot to salute the king, but  he must not of positioned  the cannon quite right, and boom bang whiz ( or woop zoop sloop) the roof was on fire. for the low watt bulbs in the audiance the cannon hit the thached roof and bang in fire it went. we do know that every one was evacuated, b

How far is it to London?

Sign in Logan airport

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London - Getting ready to go

Getting ready to go to London, I'll be posting every day so keep watching! The plane leaves at 8:50 tonight
(March 22nd) and will be landing in London 7:20 AM, which is 2:20 AM here in Massachusetts. Hmm, not the party all night I was envisioning. I wonder if I will be tired...?

Getting ready

What I am Not Going to Tell you About – Italy

I am not going to tell you about all the awesome stuff I have been doing in Italy.

Like how we had to go on the six hour plane ride from Boston to Amsterdam overnight and also the 2 hour flight from Amsterdam to Venice. The airport in Boston is called Logan. The airport in Amsterdam is called Schipol. The airport in Venice is called Marco Polo. Marco Polo is a very fun game to play in the swimming pool. It is very funny how they named an airport after a swimming pool game. Marco Polo was actually a great Italian explorer but I didn’t know that until my mom just told me.

And I won’t tell you how the airplane company Delta left our check in luggage in Amsterdam. And that the courier broke the deal that they deliver our luggage in 24 hours to the hotel – so I had to stay in my stinky clothes for 2 days.

I am not going to tell you all the fun stuff I have been doing either…like going skiing with two of my friends from London and how we have an awesome skiing instructor named Lukas. He is awesome because he is a great Italian ski instructor and he teaches things like how to do perfect parallel, we learned how to ski backwards today and ski on one ski.

I will not tell you how we have a room just for skiing and it is ironically called The Ski Room.

Our view from the window is of the ski slopes. It is kind of boring except for the occasional Moose who races by. Here in the Dolomites it is fun! The Dolomites are mountains in the Alps. We hear people speaking Italian and German. We say “Ciao” a lot.

I will not tell you about the awesome swimming pool and how the management is very mean in saying “This is not a FUN hotel, it is a WELLNESS hotel.” BORING!

So far I have only eaten penne pasta for dinner but today I am trying a chicken schnitzel. I did not want Vienner Schnitzel because it sounds too much like Weiner Schnitzel. And I think most of the readers know what a Weiner is.

I hope you enjoy this blog in which I do not tell you anything.