Dear 7th Grade Math Class,

I recently took a trip to London, England for my "sports loaf", a small 10 day break right before Easter break. It was a lot of fun! We went to many museums including the British Museum, where we saw lots of mummies and the Rosetta stone, which is a tool used in translating several languages. We also went on the Eye of London. This is a massive farris wheel that overlooks London and that’s how it got its name. I took about a billion pictures.

After that we went to a rural city called Bath. There was an interesting museum there where we saw the real Roman baths, that’s where the word "bath" got its name I guess. In that particular museum they had a machine that was a hearing tour guide that told you everything about anything. It was really cool. We also went to a weird restaurant called Garfunkles.

Then we took a train to Cardiff, Wales, where we met some old friends, and rented our first car. All of the cars there have the steering wheel on the right side instead of the left so that took some getting used to. After we got our car we went to an outdoor museum on Welsh history. We went inside little huts that were made by the kelts around the 10th century. Then we took a long car ride to our friends’ house. Once we got there we ate dinner at a bar/pub. The food was really good. The next day we took a walk in the woods near our friend’s house.

The day we had to leave Wales we went to a really cool museum on modern physics, where like beach balls floated in mid-air and there were water guns, and a bunch of other cool stuff. Afterwards we said our goodbyes and left Wales.

Once we were back in London we celebrated my mom’s birthday. We were in London for two more days. We visited the Tower of London, a fortress of British kings and queens. We saw the armor of King Henry VIII. After our visit, we took a long plane ride back to Sweden.

I am writing this from Sweden. The time difference of six hours is very tiring or so it seems. I am back in school or "skolan" is the Swedish term. I miss you all very much except for Tony!

=] (joking!)

Sincerely,
Noah Budd