What an awesome trip Dan and I had to London! As everyone probably knows, I'm not a traveler, so to go to London twice in my lifetime is near miraculous. Dan had a research conference in Hull, England this year and I couldn't miss the opportunity to go along so that I could visit my brother Josh and his family in London. We had such a fantastic trip! It is an interesting kind of trip to be visiting family without actually taking my own kids. We were able to hang out with our cute nieces and nephew and it was a ton of fun. Here are a bunch of highlights from the trip:
This is us on the train going to church with Brooklyn and Makenna.
Conference at Hull... Not too exciting, but I got to relax (seriously... I slept until 3:00 in the afternoon one day!) I was glad they had shopping malls all over so I could shop. The only things I got were for Cali... I missed her a ton! This is a picture of us outside the cool aquarium that BP took us to for dinner.
It's been a lot of years since my paper route days, but turns out I can still ride a bike! We went on the Fat Tire Bike tour of London one day and it was awesome. All the parks are SO green and huge. It was also cool to have a guide take us to all the London sights. Definitely a highlight for me!
Biking through Hyde Park
This is in Trafalgar Square with Big Ben in the background.
All I can say is... Fantastic!!!
This is us playing Nertz and eating junk with J&A. We felt so bad keeping them up until 2:00 and 4:00 am. every night... especially since Josh still had to get up early and go to work! It definitely reminded us of our Provo days. Maybe it's a good thing we don't still live close so that we get more sleep! What can we say... we like to party!
Learning how to ride scooters... Brooklyn and Makenna totally kicked our cans though.
Dan LOVED putting the girls to bed at night.
We didn't get a whole lot of pictures with Mr. Z - I guess because he likes his mama! But he was a lot of fun. Always smiling and just doing his own thing.
We played at the park by their house on our last night. We flew a kite, rode scooters, and played little kids games - this is me catching Makenna in Colored Eggs
The girls got a lot of piggy back rides :)
This is in front J&A's house before we left. We had a lot of fun staying with them and are so glad we had the chance to see them in London before they move back. Thanks guys!
Finally, the woman who made it all possible. My mom is amazing! I don't know how many grandmas would take care of my four little munchkins for 8 whole days. They had so much fun with Grandma... they are still talking about everything they did with her. And I think I'll never hear the end of "but Grandma let us do it..."
