The one where little kids made my day

Though I tried to be relatively fiscally responsible while in London (a.k.a. the most expensive place on the planet!), I did have to try out The London Eye, the giant Ferris Wheel they always show on New Year’s Eve reports from that time zone.

It turned out to be quite like Eagle Eye, only without Shia Lebeouf trying to play a twentysomething. Yes, you do look like someone that could play a foster father to Michelle Monaghan’s kid. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. I meant her actual kid. But I digress.

My interest in Ferris Wheels and Ferris-Wheel-Like-Devices has grown since I found out that the first one EVER was built for the 1893 World’s Fair in my darling City, Chicago. I recommend ‘Devil in the White City’ by Erik Larson btw.

 

Chicago so rarely gets any props in this world that I get excited anytime it’s mentioned for anything, given a rare shoutout it so deserves. Damn you L.A. Damn you!*

 

So anyways, I convince Soonie to get on it with me. She claims a fear of heights, I don’t completely believe her until we get on and she begins to freak out. Thus taking the 30 minute ride from fun to damn funtastic!

 

She huddles in the middle of the ‘eye’ on the bench they have, and clutches onto me and Julian for safety. Every time we make a move to get up we are reprimanded, at which time I start to crack up.

Thankfully there is a mother with two young children in the same ‘eye’. Ages? Dunno, I would say under 8, a boy and a girl. And you know kids at that age.

 

 So curious about the world.

So full of questions.

And wonder.

 

Witness the below exchange, which nearly caused poor Soonie to succumb of fear and me, somewhat cruelly, to almost die of laughter:

Mother: “Stay close to me, don’t go close to the door”

Boy: “Whyyyyyyyyyyyy?”

Mother: “Because it has a sign that says ‘do not lean against door’”

Girl: “Whyyyyyyyyyyyy?”

Mother: Because we are very high up and it’s dangerous.

Boy (a cartoon light bulb has clearly gone up in his head, super excited): “Because we would fall and then they’d have to call an ambulance!”

Girl (excitedly): “Our heads would crack open on the ground!”

Boy (not wanting to be outdone by his sibling, yet maintaining the somewhat eerily happy tone): “We’d be dead!!!”

Both smile.

 

Completely made it worth the 13.20 pounds!

 

*(I’m o.k. with NYC, it took a few years of pretty strong hatred though).