Sunday, May 3, 2009

The Cathedral in Christchurch



While Mom and Damon were on a bus tour, Maddie, Dad and I went into the Christchurch Cathedral. We oohed and ahhed at all the beautiful wood work, tiles, stained glass windows. We saw some pipes for an organ, but couldn't find it. We searched all over and finally found it! It was under a cover and we couldn't touch it. We also found that there was a bell tower! We did not want Mom and Damon to miss out so we thought that we would wait untill they were back. When we got to the cathedral Mom and Damon had not been there so we had a look around with them and then we went up in the Bell Tower. Damon went to the front and paid for 5 people. At last we were headed up! At first we were walking on cement steps and I did not feel like I was going to fall at all. Then we started walking on wooded steps and they were a bit wobbly! There were little labels on all the steps saying names of different people and the number of steps we were on! All the steps were going around and around, so that we kept on going in circles but we kept moving up! Every step I took upwards it just kept on getting scarier and scarier. Finally we got to the last step before a landing, and on the very last step it said: 134! We walked up 134 steps! When we all had stepped up onto the landing we found that there were 4 doors. Dad and I went into one, Maddie, Damon and Mom went into the one right next to us! On the outside it was really cool, we were fenced in and we could look right down at the Cathedral square in all directions around the tower! When we were all finally done, we started climbing down the steep ladder that we had climbed up to get to the very top of the tower! Now we just had to climb 134 steps down! Soon enough we were down and we could go relax or look around a bit in the market!
-Elena

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