Yesterday Tiffany and I went to the Tate Modern because they have a really cool installation in the turbine hall. In order to experience the exhibit, we had to wait in the queue to get free tickets.

At the moment, one of the coolest things for 10 year-old English children are shoes that have wheels in the heal. I’m not sure if they are popular in the States, but here, everyone under 13 seems to have them. With the shoes kids will walk along and suddenly lift their toes off the floor and glide. It’s the weirdest thing the first time you see it. After you quickly figure out what’s going on, you are overcome with a desire to get the shoes yourself. I’ve been looking for the shoes in adult sizes, but have yet to see some.

Anyway, you see kids gliding along everywhere, the supermarket, the sidewalk, and while waiting for tickets at the Tate Modern. The floor in the hall is a long gentle slope, so while we waited we were treated to a spectacle of children wheeling down the slope weaving around passersby and crashing into their parents. It was quite fun.

After the “Kids on Wheels” show, we finally got our tickets and proceeded to the upper floors of the museum. The point of the exhibit is to return to the bottom of the turbine hall in record time. Yes, they have installed slides that wind their way down from the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th floor to the ground floor of the turbine hall! It was really, really fun. The slides were similar to waterslides, but instead of water, you slid down on a sack. The turns in the slide were a little bumpy, so when people screamed it sounded funny as they hit the turns, “Aaaaaaaaaaaaah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh.”

All in all, it was a really fun day. We took a few pics of the slides.