In London there is an event at Hyde Park called Winter Wonderland. It is amazing. Today I took the train into London and did some Christmas/Souvenir shopping for family and friends. After walking Oxford St (a street Sarah and I got very accustomed to while we were in London at the beginning of this adventure) I decided to go to Winter Wonderland. Hyde Park is huge. When we got there, there was a huge line up to enter the park because they didnt want large crowds all entering at once. It is a free event to enter but you pay for everything inside--which is great because it can be as cheap or as expensive of a day as you want it to be. Inside Winter Wonderland there is vendor after vendor of food, drink and shops. However, these are not just normal transportable vendor stalls. They had full blown wood-made bars and stalls everywhere. In amongst these there were carnival games and fair rides as well as many fun and haunted houses. In typical winter carnival fashion I invested in some roasted candied nuts, hot cider and a candy apple! Yumm! We spent a few hours at the Winter Wonderland just walking around, looking at the different vendors and trying to win me a minion! (Failed, but did win a prize at one of the games). There was a giant ice rink--but you had to buy tickets to enter it; but watching the people skate made me feel better about my poor skating skills. It really does make a difference having ice available to you for most of the winter in Canada. There was also a giant ice castle with ice sculptors, etc inside but again you had to pay additional costs for it and after spending quite a bit of money on trying to win me a minion...again...we just walked around and observed.
There was roller coasters, thrill rides and this amazing ride that if we didnt have bags and I wasn't wearing a dress we would have totally gone into. Its a giant barrel that spins around insanely fast. You stand up against the wall of the barrel and it starts moving. The speed of the spinning keeps you in place. Then they drop the floor out from under you but you stay in the same spot so you are literally only being held in place by the movement of the barrel. It looked awesome, I may go back next weekend to try it.
Overall it was a great day and an awesome way to spend a Sunday when I feel like I haven't gone out and done much outside of Luton in the last few weeks (hence the lack of blogging).
22 days and I will be back in Canada for just under 2 weeks! Can't wait.
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