Something Fishy This Way Comes.

Wow. Great trip out today. Mummy and Tippi were feeling a little tired, so Daddy took me into Big London. First up we went to have some lunch in somewhere called Wagamamas, which is a bit like a big school dinners room but with really cool food like HUGE bowls of noodles and stuff. Mmm. It’s really lovely food. It’s a bit odd, but some people eat this food with kind of wooden twigs called chopsticks, although I thought that was a piece of music annoyingly played by all eight year olds. Daddy was very funny with the chopsticks ‘cos he said he was really good with them but, at one point while he was manipulating his raman noodles, his fingers did a funny flip and a big piece of chicken flew across the table and flopped right into a lady’s Prada handbag. No one noticed and Daddy made a ‘sshhh’ noise at me when I started to point. I think he should have said something ‘cos she’s going to get a nasty surprise when she reaches in for her oyster card. Anyway, after our lunch we went to the London Aquarium. Boy was that exciting. You go down in a lift right underground and you’re kind of in the dark a lot and there are these big windows with water behind them and lots and lots of fish. Blue and yellow ones, red ones, orange ones, stickly-back ones, sea horses… bit small to ride if you ask me although jockeys are quite tiny… there was a Finding Nemo window with all the fishy stars of Finding Nemo in it, crabs, prawns, in fact a whole seafood risotto in one place. There was also a very shy octopus who wouldn’t show his face, presumably embarrassed about not picking the winners in the World Cup. But… and this is major… the biggest, bestest, scariest bit was the SHARKS! Yes, I said SHARKS! Exclamation mark. You are really close to them and they look really vicious. They have very, very sharp teeth and they look like they aren’t afraid to use them. They are swimming around with some turtles who all look a little bit nervous… well you would wouldn’t you? They were swimming around what looked like an underwater city with a giant whale skeleton. Don ‘t know if it was real, but it was way cool. I do wonder what the SHARKS are thinking. I mean, to them we look like we are in a big tank, walking around. They were probably looking at my Daddy and going, gosh, he’s a vicious looking brute; I’d stay clear of him if I were you. Well, Mr SHARK, he’s my Daddy and I think he’s lovely. What do you know, you’re just a big, prehistoric, eating machine with crooked teeth, what do you know? So there. Anyway, it was a great day out and I loved being with my Daddy. That’s all I’ve got time for right now, see you soon and don’t forget you’re never too old to play.

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