Goodbye Edinburgh ... Hello London!

On Friday the 8th of April, we said goodbye to our friends in Edinburgh. :( it was very sad, even a few tears from mum, but we were excited for the next part of our journey.  Here is a photo of Amelie with her best friends from Royal Mile Primary, Trisha and Jorja.  Amelie will miss them very much.

On the way to London we stayed one night at Stoke on Trent, it was about half way to London.  In London we stayed in the city at a hotel.  We only explored London for about 24 hours, but we saw lots.  Here are some photo's of our first afternoon.

First we walked across the bridge and past big ben, and Westminster.  We even saw the church where Prince William and Kate will get married in.  They were already starting to errect scaffolding for seating along the streets.

Then we got some icecreams and walked past Buckingham Palace.  You can tell that the Queen is at home, because the flag is flying.  Also there were police with big guns there to protect her.  We saw the guards at the palace, they weren't allowed to move unless they were doing their special march.

We then walked through Hyde Park ....

Until we got tired legs and took a London black cab ....

To Trafalgar Square!

Then we walked back past the place where they keep the Queens' horses ....

The horses also had to stand very still.

We also took a picture of Paddington Bear with a Guard!

Then we walked back to our hotel where we had dinner .... Ollie's other front tooth came out at dinner time!

We had our baths, it was a nice hotel, with robes and slippers and all.  Ollie and I thought the robes looked like kung-fu clothes.

In the morning, we went on the London Eye, it is a big ferris wheel in the middle of London.  We were up really high!

From the London Eye, we spotted Darth Vader ... so we got a photo with him

Then Mum saw Captain Jack Sparrow, and got a photo too....

After that, we took the "London Underground" which is the train, to a place in Hyde Park called "Speakers Corner".  Dad loves Speakers Corner and goes there every time he is in London.  It is a place were people can go and talk about what ever they like.  The people who are talking usually stand on something like a ladder or a box.  Lots of people go to listen to the people talking and ask them questions and argue.  Here is a photo of one of the speakers at Speakers Corner, and the people listening and asking questions.  Dad thought the mans pants were funny.

Ollie asked Mum who she believed, the man on the ladder, or the man in the grey shirt who was holding a "can" (aka alcoholic beverage) who was arguing with him.... Mum said she didn't know, but Ollie said he believed the man with the can.   hmmmmmm......

After we left Speakers Corner, we went to our Great Aunt Pat's house.  Pat is our Nanny's Aunty .... she is not that old, but she is great .... we stayed at her house and her lovely husband Steve cooked a magnificent barbeque, especially for a pommy, and we got to meet Lucy, Richard and his wife and two kids ... they were all so nice, it felt just like being at home with family!

Here is a picture of our Great Aunt Pat.....

Pat and Steve gave us some very useful tips about travelling on the eurotunnel and driving in Paris ... lucky!  In the morning we headed off to France!!!

Thanks so much Pat and Steve, so nice to catch up with you, looking forward to seeing you guys in Australia!