london – Lulu and the Bean

It’s been half term this week. We’ve had lots of family fun and an action packed week. Ian’s shifts meant he also had a few days off, so we decided to make the most of spending time together and head down to London for a few days.

We left home around 7pm Tuesday evening after getting the girls ready for bed with the expectation they would soon fall asleep in the car. They were rather over excited by the Mr Tumble DVD we put on for them however and neither of them dropped off before 10pm. We arrived late but had everyone in their beds and settled by midnight.

We are lucky that there is room for us all to stay with Ian when we go to see him, although the 4hr+ journey means we haven’t travelled to him very much. You always have to add on at least an hour to the expected journey time just for having the M25 as part of the route… It’s a lot easier and makes more sense for Ian to hop on a train and travel home to us for his days off – a journey that only takes him 2 hours.

I’ll break down our week of fun so this doesn’t turn into a mammoth post but we visited the Science Museum, Epping Forest, re-lived our youth at ‘Roller bowl’ and had a trip to the theatre back in Manchester with Granny…