One of the massive benefits of home educating is that you don't need to take the kids on holiday in School holiday time. You don't have to visit tourist attractions when there are hoards of people there and you don't have to pay inflated prices. With that in mind we decided to visit London for a day trip. Great Yarmouth had been so quiet. Probably because everyone was in London. I won't do this again, it was very stressful, dirty and busy... not to mention expensive. I took money out of savings to pay for this day out so we could do a touristy day of London.
We went on the London Eye. I won't complain about the way we were mis-sold a ticket which was meant to have no queue but still ended up queueing in the heat with two small boys, Miles was very upset in the queue. Sigh. We have all been there I am sure. The London Eye was really spectacular though. Miles and Caden enjoyed seeing the sights.
I took them to Madame Tussauds as well. Here I am with my mate Sean! He is very tall!
Caden with the Queen Mum. He liked seeing the Queen.
We went on a ride at the end which they both enjoyed but truth be told, it was too busy for them. They both found it stressful as well and they didn't really know who the people were so it wasn't a great choice for them. Caden knew who Hitler was and the Prime Minister so it had some educational value. Plus he saw Einstein which was nice for him. We were all very glad to get out of there and go to Hyde Park on the open top bus. In retrospect, the open top bus would actually have been the best thing to do with them, rather than the London Eye (OK) and Tussauds (awful). Next time we go, I hope we can do that. BUT NOT IN THE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS.... ARGH!
We visited the Princess of Diana Memorial Playground again. Their third visit in as many months. They love it SO much. I hardly saw them for two hours, which was a welcome rest after the day we'd had.
Miles in the palm.
Milesy made friends, as usual. He always makes friends, Caden is getting better at it too. They are such different little bods. Here Miles is helping a boy to 'dump' sand.
Caden made a smiley face for me to take a picture of.
When it closed we went for our picnic supper on the grass. They loved it because they had cherry pie and hot cross buns to eat.
Such a gorgeous photo of them.
We walked slowly through the park and stopped at the fountain and ponds to look in the water and play with the duck ramps.
We found another playground, name unknown. They had a good play here too.
Then we waited for the open top bus again but it didn't arrive. So we gave up and got the train back. It was very late and they were shattered. They had a good day overall I think but we won't be visiting London again in the holiday again. No thanks!
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