Day23-25 (Monday to Wednesday)
Monday
Woke up and headed off to Paul and
Tracey's to see everyone and say good bye before everyone left for
work and school.....Lovely to see them again after 4 years and only
communication either by Facebook or texting!!
Back to the Inn for breakfast and then
getting ready to drive the car back to Heathrow. Left at 10.30am and
it took about an hour to do this. It was raining a bit heavy and
traffic was quite good ...it only slowed right down twice for a few
seconds. I'm so glad our roads are so simple....but I do have to say
they are definitely more courteous over here!!
Dropped the car off and headed to
Terminal one via shuttle bus and then to the Train station.....we
took this to a point ( Earls court) and then had to change to the
district line to get to the station (Bayswater) not far from the
hotel. I was stuffed by the time we got to the hotel....As I needed
to pull my suitcase twice and then lug it too the hotel) up two
flights of stairs!! Not easy to do with every one moving around you.
But we survived.
Booked in and settled in. Decided to
walk through Hyde park and go to Whole foods for lunch....My
favourite store for food.
Evan wanted to have a beer at Goat
tavern next so in we went. It was for medicinal purposes as he had
pulled a muscle in his back.
Walked back through Hyde park pass
Kensington palace and waited for Jason to arrive at our Hotel.
We went to Regent St and walked through
all the wonderful shops.....love it!! Our 1st stop was
the M&M shop. 4 floors or M&M's and memorabilia....Who would
of thought you could get that much M&M”S!! Next we found a
pub for dinner....Evan and I weren’t very hungry as lunch was about
3pm. But of course Jason was starving!! We walked down to the
Thames and walked along the board walk near the London eye and to a
point where Jason took our photo of us with Big Ben in the
background. Walked over the bridge and went
the closest we have
ever been to Big Ben....Back to the hotel and good nights to Jason.
Asked him to text me when he got home....I have a week to be a mother
and told him so!!
Tuesday
Woke to a clear day and breakfast
downstairs at the Brasserie. Our plan for the day was to spend all
day at the British Museum something I missed out on last time. Walked
down to the Tube at Queensway on the central line just a couple of
minutes from our hotel. This station does not use escalators but at
large corel type elevator, You heard yourself in one door with about
another 50 people and out the other once you reach the bottom. I now
know how stock animals feel. Next stop Tottenham Court Road and on to
the Museum. Arrived after a 15min walk and to my great map boy
directions walked through the entrance with 100's of other people
from overseas school groups and tourists buses. Once inside and
people started heading off in different directions you realise how
vast this museum is it just swallows up literally thousands of people
and you don't realise there all in the same building. Our first stop
was at the exhibit of 5000 years of horses from Arabia to Ascot.
Then on to the one of the Egyptian
sections. We were amazed in Paris at the Louve four years ago how
much Egyptian antiquities they had it is nothing compared to the
British Museum I guess with Englands reign over the world they
plundered a lot but at least it has been preserved for the world to
see and not destroyed but countless wars through the times. Time for
coffee and to meet Jason for lunch at his work. We have been looking
for 2 hours and have seen about 5% of this place. Had lunch with
Jason in Sloans Square and back to the Museum. Spent another 3 1/2
hours just looking around and trying to decipher artefacts going back
12000 years. In the end to much input so decided to go to the pub
opposite Jason’s work and have a few great English ales. We went
upstairs to the lounge section sat in a couple of old antique chairs
drank my pints and watched the gas fire waiting for Jason to finish
work at 6.00pm. Once Jason met us I had downed my third pint (3 pints
= same cost as 1 pint in WA) and off to see our gorgeous Niece Jade
and her boyfriend Leon of exactly 2 years at some Turkish restaurant
in Angel.
Had a lovely meal with them and Leon is
just lovely. Have missed Jade and her piggy snort when she laughs
its just too cute!! We shouted them all dinner and left together
after 2 ½ hours. Jason was proud of me for eating the food as I am
not a very adventurous eater!!
Made our way back to the train station
and loads of hugs and goodbyes. Blew kisses when off the train as
Jade and Leon stayed on. Jason wanted to walk us back to the
hotel.....what a wonderful son we have. Making sure Mummy and Daddy
arrive safe :)
Said good night's and made arrangements
for seeing him tomorrow.
Wednesday
Its a girlie day today....( No Pubs )
We got up and headed off to breakfast.
Wandered to the train station and went in search of
Chockywockydoodah. It is a chocolate shop, Cafe and somewhere you
can go to for wonderful Wedding cakes, birthday cakes and many more.
The decorations are so me and Mum you would love it also. The owner
makes all the lamp shades and they are so pretty. We had a hot drink
upstairs and I had a chocolate sundae which had chocolate ice-cream,
brownie, cream, choccy drops a chocolate straw and a shortbread
biscuit. That's me for lunch!!
Thank goodness we were walking for a
couple of km's!!
We walked through some more of the
lovely little roads and made our way back onto Regents street.
Headed down to St James Park and saw some more of those gorgeous
little squirrels. We also saw a rather large Pelican sitting on
bench chair. They are a little bigger than ours and slightly fluffy.
Walked to Buckingham palace and took it all in. This was a better
vantage point than last time as we could look at it front on instead
of from the side.
Wondered towards the Apollo Theatre to
see Wicked. So many school groups going to the Matinee. But they
were good during the performance. It was a great show and I loved
the stage and the costumes. I have to admit as much as I was
enjoying it I nearly fell asleep twice!! I think Evan was the same.
It was about 5.30pm when we got out and
headed back to the hotel for a quick shower before Jason arrived to
take us shopping for his Xmas present and a few other things. Had
dinner at a hamburger place in the centre....was very nice!! A
lovely night and we left Jason at the station about 9.45pm.
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