London Here we Come

Rising early we left at around 7.30am to catch the 8.29am train to London, it was Andy's Birthday yesterday and he chose to go to London today to celebrate, so 8 of us went, Andy and Jen and Children, Sandra and Terry and me and Bob.

Train arriving at Kings Lynn

Sophie, hair amess listening to Ipod

Dylan singing along to 'I am the Music Man'

 It was a good train journey to London, then we caught the Underground train to South Kensington to visit the Natural History Museum.

The Tube station

 On arriving at the Natural History Museum, we found a long queue, and had to queue up for about 30 minutes.

Natural History Museum

The queue

When we eventually go in the museum

The Entrance Hall

 Our first stop was to the basement to the indoor picnic area for an early lunch before it got busy.

Indoor Picnic area in the basement

The biggest tea bag ever

Our first port of call was the Dinosaur Room

Then we went into Human Biology where Sophie, Dylan and ME and then Bob had a go at hopscotch.

Then we headed for the Mammels, and to see the Blue Whale which was Jen's sole reason for going.

The Blue Whale

Sophie had been on about seeing the Creepy Crawlie so we then headed there.

We then went to visit the gift shop, by now we were all hot, bothered and tired, so decided to leave, and walk to Hyde Park which was a far longer walk than i was led to believe:)

Prince Alberts Memorial

Horses riding out in Hyde Park

Princess Diana's Memorial Fountain

We stopped at a Lakeside cafe for an ice cream

Lake Serpentine

Sophie 'What is that Water' Me 'The Serpentine' Sophie 'so in London Lakes are called Serpentine but in Hunstanton they are called lakes'  Then she proceeded to ask in London what are 'deck chairs' called, 'buses' called' etc etc lol.

Queen Carolines Memorial for whom the Serpentine was created.

The Waterfall from both sides

The Squirrel

The Den

Then we headed back to Kings Cross on the Underground, and before heading for home went to visit St Pancras Station you know how boys are with their toys or is it trains:)

We passed a Sushi bar where the Sushi was going round on a small conveyer belt, pretty neat

Then we headed to Kings Cross and picked up a Burgerking and caught the train home, overall a successful day, full of new experiences for the children, who were very well behaved, a good day, but very very tiring. We got home about 8.15pm.