Partway through the day, we detoured off of the bus tour to go through the British Museum. The museum was fascinating, and had so many interesting things from our earth's history. There were mobs of people, so it was hard at times to be able to get close to the more popular exhibits (the Rosetta stone and the Egyptian mummies). But, we did the highlights tour (racing practically from room to room) and made mental notes that this is a museum that we'd need to spend more time at our next visit (we're certain that sometime in our life we're coming back!)
One of the stops on the hop-on, hop-off bus was Hamleys toy store - it is a 7 story toy store. Again, there were mobs of people in the store, but dedicated parents that we are, we did manage to find the Thomas the Tank Engine section of the store and picked up some books and two more trains for our boys. Now, we'll have four trains, which means that we have more trains than Zachary has hands, so he'll have to allow Kaleb to have some trains! :) We've also bought a really cute book "Katie Goes to London" for the kids in our circle about a little girl and her brother on an imaginary trip around London on top of a lion (a lion statue that comes to life in front of the National Gallery - see picture of the lion below). To date, we have purchased only gifts for our kids - no souvenirs for ourselves yet, so we need to rectify that!
To end the day, we went back to Westminster Abbey to hear an organ recital - it was very lovely, although the choir that we briefly heard on Friday was superior! :)
We're thankful to be back at our apartment, resting our feet and recuperating from our busy day.
The report from home sounds like Grandma is discovering all sorts of funny things about the boys - such as the fact that Kaleb loves to rip his diaper off if you don't get clothes back on him fast enough, and the fact that Kaleb has a bad habit of "doing his business" in the tub (we have no idea why, but this has happened at least 4 times whereas it never happened with Zachary - ever!!). You have to chuckle though - as Grandma described it, the boys were taking their bath together when all of a sudden Kaleb began to make a grunting noise....Zachary shouts "Grandma, Kaleb is pooping - I have to get out of the tub right now!!!" and jumps out of the tub before she can blink an eye! Poor kid, he's had this happen to him before so he knows the signs now! Ha ha!
Enjoying the top deck of the hop-on, hop-off bus tour
A very British telephone booth in front of Westminster Abbey
Statue of Churchill - strangely enough, this is in a square in front of Westminster Abbey but there are NO cross-walks to get safely across the road - so in order to enjoy all of the statues, you have to jay-walk! Weird!
Picture of Tower Bridge from afar
Check-out the guy on the motorcycle - dressed in a teddy bear outfit! Ha ha!
Picture of lion in front of National Gallery - featured in the storybook "Katie Goes to London"
2 comments:
Enjoying your blogs from London. Looks like you are really getting a thorough tour all on your own. Sounds like your Mom is having FUN too.
Enjoying your blog and the pix are awesome. All that history - incredible. Happy to hear that Gram and the boys are having a good time too.
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