Birmingham, UK by the kids

On the 27th we drove out of Scotland and to Birmingham. When we got there we went to our hotel, put our bags down, and went out to see the city. The bit we went to had lots of art, there were mainly just sculptures, all of it was really cool. In the area there were also statues of bulls that were about a meter long and were all coloured different, my favourite was the one that looked like a half-unwrapped Milka chocolate bar. After that we went to a pub and I got a giant burger, then we went home and went to sleep.
On the 28th we went to a castle called Warwick castle, it is a castle that has lots of cool stuff around it, when we got there we went to watch an archer fire some arrows, it was interesting. Then, when we kept walking I saw it a giant trebuchet, it is the biggest trebuchet in the world, it weights 22 tons and is 18 meters tall. We waited a bit and then a show started that had the trebuchet, it was about a fake army was coming and the actors who were protecting were doing stuff all the while the trebuchet was loading, at the end of the show they fired the trebuchet and the ball went flying like 200 meters, awesome. After that we went to a jousting arena, there was another show where they were showing a battle with only a few people, there was fighting and jousting, very cool. After that we went to yet another show, this one they had lots of falcon and eagles, the birds would fly really close to everybody. They even had a Peregrin falcon, they made it dive and it was awesome, then they let out a condor (I don’t remember the full name). It was so big, it was the biggest bird in the show, it swooped really close to the people at the front. The last bird was a bald eagle, they’re beautiful animals, then to make it even cooler they let all the birds out and they were flying around. After that we went to visit the castle, it was really cool, the castle had big walls (we walked across the top), then we went to a maze that was based on the horrible history books, (I am a big fan of them). In the maze there were stamps that we would have to collect, plus there where facts about different eras of time. Me and Emma ran around hiding from mum and dad, it was fun. After that we went back to the hotel and went to sleep.
Andrew (10 years old)

On the 27th we drove from Edinburgh to Birmingham. Then we walked around the city. Had dinner at a pub then went home.
On the 28th we went to Warwich castle. Warwich castle has fun activity like archery, a maze. It was a horrible history maze where time was messed up and we had to get stamps. Me and Andrew found all the stamps and we put time well again.
A show where they were fighting on horses. That show was my favourite. There was a small grey horse that I really liked. There were other horses that were black, white and brown. They were showing what happened in one of the wars that was near Warwick. There were two sides. White rose and red rose. We were in white rose. We had to cheer white rose.
There was a trebuchet as well. Then we saw a show where they showed us birds of prey. There were lots of big birds. Some of them were flying really low. I had to duck if I didn’t want to be hit. It was really cool.
Then we visited the castle (all the stuff I just described was on the outside of the castle). It had lots of weapons and armour. The worst thing was that there was a dungeon. If you read all of our blogs, you would have read about a London dungeon and how it terrified me. I don’t even know why they want a dungeon anyway. We didn’t do it because I knew I wouldn’t like it.
We saw where royal people would dine. It was a fun day.
On the 29th we drove to worthing to see dad’s family.
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