Europe Trip, Day 3: London

It was a sunny Saturday. We headed East this morning and started at the Tower of London.

We walked along the Thames from the tube station to the Tower. It was beautiful. Here's a picture with the Tower Bridge behind us.

 

A closer view of the bridge.

 

Tower of London behind us.  We are on the West side here.

At times during its history, there were lions guarding the castle. 

A view from the South side.  

We walked over to Borough Market for an early lunch. 

Here's a picture of my yummy Superveg Burger. 

I took this picture of some of the booths while I waited for Brian to get his lunch. 

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. 

On the Southbank, with a good view of Big Ben & Parliament. 

The view crossing the bridge. 

Of course, we had to take a picture with a phone booth. 

Europe Trip, Day 2: London

We spent a good part of Friday on a bike tour.  It was really fun!  I had been worried about the weather before we arrived, and it ended up being great weather the majority of our time in London.  It did mist & lightly rain Friday at the tail end of the bike tour, and then it sprinkled throughout our time in the Churchill War rooms.

Our first destination on the bike tour was Kensington Garden and Kensington Palace.  Here we are in the garden.  

 

And the back side of the Palace.

 

The Albert Memorial in Kensington Garden.

 

Here we are at Hyde Park Corner. 

 

A view of Hyde Park Corner from across the street.

 

I was too slow pulling out my camera for the changing of the guard :(. But you can see them heading off in the very back of the pic, if you look closely. 

 

A slightly better view of just the guards.

 

With Buckingham Palace in the background. 

 

 

In Trafalgar Square.

 

Westminster Abbey. 

 

On a bridge in St James's Park with Buckingham Palace in the background. 

 

The view from this bridge is gorgeous.  Looking toward Buckingham Palace.

 

View from the same bridge in St. James's Garden, looking the other direction, you can see the Eye of London.

 

In front of the Serpentine in Hyde Park. If you look really closely, you can see the Diana Memorial Fountain on the ground behind the pond on the far right. 

After the bike tour, we headed to the Churchill Museum & Imperial War Rooms. With a soldier/guard. 

The museum was really well done. Apparently, Churchill loved wearing these "onesies". Can't say I blame him, it looks pretty comfortable. Unfortunately, they were not for sale in the gift shop. 

In front of one of the meeting rooms. 

Another work room. 

No food pictures from this day. We had a nice Italian dinner at Cosmoba, a cute little place not far from our hotel. 

Europe Trip, Day 1: London

We had a great time on the first leg of our trip. We spent three days in London.

Here's a pic on the plane...ready to take off!

After we checked into our hotel, we headed out.  First destination was Hyde Park. Here's a pic in front of Serpentine Pond. 

Then we headed down into Knightsbridge & South Kensington. Here we are with Harrods behind us. 

Then we spent some time in the Victoria and Albert Museum. A pic from inside.

The front of the V&A Museum.

We ended our day with some delicious fish & chips!

Caden's 4th Birthday Party

I can't believe Caden is four!  We celebrated his birthday Saturday, April 19th.  His party was at the same location as last year's, Pump It Up.  He and his friends had so much fun. 

He wanted a Cars cake.  Here's the cake that I made for him.

 

Caden and Mommy before the party.

 



Papa sliding down with Kendall, Caden, and Jonah.

Annabelle running around. 

 

Annabelle climbing up a slide. 

 

And sliding down. 

 

All the kids lined up. 

 

Caden smiling for the group picture. 

 

Pizza time. 

 

Caden enjoying his pizza.

 

Singing Happy Birthday. 

 

Mommy cutting the cake.  

 

Caden enjoying his cake.

 

Here's a picture of Caden in his birthday shirt.  I used this picture on his invitation.