Day 18 – London - Monday, January 20th 2014: Julius Rohrlach

Today a small group of boys, led by Mrs Vial, visited the Madame Tussauds wax museum. We all ventured bravely into the unknown, finding ourselves invited to a ‘party’ full of world famous actors, all strangely made of wax…

 The museum was amazing; lifelike statues of people, previously only seen by us on the TV or Movies screen. Suddenly, they were standing in front of us, making strange poses that gestured us to take photos with them.

While inside, we met many famous people, such as Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, James Bond, Shrek and even the Queen. Inside the museum there was a new exhibition, ‘Marvel Characters’, in which we saw a life-size Hulk who was angrily in the process of smashing apart the Marvel exhibit. Iron man and Wolverine were also both there.

After the wax museum, we took a short trip down the road to 221 B Baker Street, the house/museum of the great Sherlock Holmes. Inside the seemingly TARDIS like house (larger on the inside) we were met by Sherlock himself, an array of characters from the books and movies and the author of the books himself and iconic pieces of clothing and items, such as Sherlock’s Deerstalker hat, infamous pipe and magnifying glass. Later on we made our way to Harrods, the David Jones EXTREME, where sales of Porsches and Caviar are common, and jackets for enormous sums of money ($5600 +) and working toy cars for well over 30k are all the norm

Julius Rohrlach (Yr 10).