This weekend has been full of exploring London. Yesterday Lucy and I went to a place called the London Dungeons, which is an amusement-like park right by where I work. It takes you through the history of London in 2-3 hours and adds a scary aspect to it. All of the workers are dressed up and have funny little parts. You start off your tour during the Plague and then on to a surgeon who picks a lucky audience member to dissect! You then go through to see Madame Torturer, who shows you a various amount of weapons used in the past. After you are "tortured", you move on to get tried in court. You're immediately sentenced to death and move on to a boat ride. It takes you backwards and places you in the hands of Sweeney Todd!! This is one of the scariest parts because they sit you down and turn off the lights and his voice immediately fills the silence. As he talks, it feels like someone is running their fingers through your hair and its really creepy. The lights then turn on and you are escorted into the history of Jack the Ripper. You visit a pub and an actor tells you all about it until the lights start to flicker. All of a sudden, Jack rushes out with a knife and slashes it around! I never jumped so high until he came out! Everyone was screaming and my heart was really racing! After the scare, you are taken to visit Queen Mary and another audience member is burned on the stake. After you witness his death (he starts facing forward and then is turned to show a burned skeleton!) you are escorted to the platform to be hanged. The platform is a free-fall ride (kind of like the Pitt fall but smaller) They take your picture right when you fall, and ours was hysterical!! Here it is for your viewing pleasure:
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