KEWWWW

look at how beeeg the lily pads are!!!

ahh helloo.

finally managed to use the internet hahaha. i have to pay 10 pounds for an internet card, and it only lasts for 24 consecutive hours. which means i can't use the net by this time tomorrow. what a bum!! how cheapskate! rawr!

erm yesterdayyy there was supposed to be a tube strike, but it didn't happen. so i hope it isn't today...uh oh. then i won't be able to go anywhere! erm well yesterday i went to kew gardends. but before i did that i had to get my photo taken at the photo booths to make myself a subway card! ahaha! ahhh i look so duh. cos inside the booth the electronic female voice said: "DO NOT SMILE" so i had to get rid of my previous photos because i smiled and had to take another one. grrr.

erm then well we took the underground to kew gardens. the tube here is so complicated!! there's like eastbound and westbound and there's underground trains and overground trains and you have to know which train to take when it arrives at your station. i think i'll get lost today by myself. well kew was great. ahaha! it's like 300 acres and there's redwood trees and pine trees and bamboos and lotsa big fields and plenty of pretty flowers. and there were magpies and all.

it took us 5 hours to do kew and we were tired. like super tired. my legs ached like mad. gosh. so we went to buy a huge bag of chips and some milk and went to covent gardens. and it was so cool cos we went to this soap shop, where we bought some bubble bath bombs. you know, you fill your bathtub up to the brim and then put the bomb inside and it fizzes and bubbles! ahaha! well then we walked by trafalgar square where we saw the tower dedicated to admiral nelson who defeated napolean. yar.

well then we just slacked in the hotel room for like...5 hours. yeapp.

and it seems the tube strike is today. oh nooooo. so i have to walk! bleagh. well good exercise.

(In Kew Gardens)

"hey jess, that looks like a funny tree!"

"yes, it looks dead too."

"yeah it does. whomping willow whomping willow!"

dad walks off to inspect the tree. i just stay where i am collecting pinecones.

dad comes back a few minutes later.

"hey it's a really really old english oak tree."
"oh cool!"
"yeah, and there's even an interesting peacock plant! come on lemme show you."

"a peacock plant? i've heard of that before."

"yes yes but this is one that you've never ever seen!!"

"oh really..?" *curiosity aroused* dad takes me around the bushes to the old tree.

"you have to look carefully as you walk by.."he hints

i look carefully.

something very strange catches my eye on the left...a peacock feather stuck in the dirt.

"ohh dad, you SUCK!"