Day 7!!

We had a glorious day today. 70 degrees and sunny. Not one drop of rain. Alex and I even got a little bit of sun!

We took the train in to London today. We started out at Covent Garden. There is a market there and shops. (this is where I wanted to go) There are also street performers there, so I thought the kids would enjoy that. Halfway through our stroll there, we decided that we needed to feed the kids. Finding some where was a little harder than we thought. We ended up at a restaurant/pub. Alex was excited when she saw Shepard's pie on the children's menu, but not excited when it came out. It is not like Nannies, or daddy's and she didn't like it at all! She did eventually eat it, but not with out telling us that Nannies was better. Since we were a little further away from Covent garden than we wanted to be, we changed directions and ended up going all over London. We went to Whitehall to see the soldiers and horses. Callum really enjoyed that. From there we went to 10 Downing Street, the Primes Minister's house. Then it was off to the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. Too funny, but having a cousin named Ben, Callum really didn't get the whole "Big Ben" thing. I thing that we have now convinced him that it is a clock too!! From there we walked through St. Jame's park Buckingham Palace. The queen was in residence but a little too busy to see us today! :0) That led us down the Mall that leads from Buckingham Palace to Clarence house which used to be the residence of the Queen Mum. Then we headed to Trafalgar Square, had some ice cream that we promised the kids, and then back to Covent garden so that I could finish looking around. By then it was after 7 so we got the kids dinner to eat on the train and we headed back home. Whew! My hands hurt from just typing it!!! We estimated that we walked over 7 miles today. The kids were good as gold. They never complained that they were tired, although understandably, they argued over the stroller a little. The kids have finally settled down to sleep, (had 2 out of the 3 up last night) but I am thinking that they will all sleep so soundly tonight that I will have to wake them up in the morning. Hope everyone is having a great week so far!!

p.s. Reba, I walked by a Chinese/Thai restaurant today. It wasn't the Wok and Roll, but it looked so much like it that I thought of you!!
Helena, we also saw an "authenthic Canadian Pub" don't know how authentic it was, but that was the name of it:0)