It gives me time to blog, which is good because I know if I don't blog everyday while we are here I won't get caught up once back home.
Yesterday we went shopping on Oxford Street, had lunch there and met up with Isobel's mom Annabel and after a bit more shopping went back to the British Museum. When we finished seeing all we wanted we walked to the hospital that Isobel is staying at. We saw her room and play spaces, played a few games and then walked to dinner, had dinner together the 5 of us, and then walked back to the hospital. Lots of walking. I have been wearing my Fitbit here in London and yesterday we walked 7.12 miles, 16,850 steps!!!! That is 2000 more than any other day here. No wonder we, and Ally especially are tired. That is a lot of walking for little legs!
This is the view from our hotel room. Lovely gardens! And our room is so quiet. It's just perfect for us. We headed out to the bus stop and spent about 2 hours shopping, then lunch at a cute spaghetti house restaurant for lunch. Ally and I split a pizza and Becky had a yummy calzone. Ally kept saying how good the pizza was!
The gorgeous Liberty of London building. Very posh store, we headed to the 3rd floor haberdashery section and gawked at the beautiful fabric and sewing notions.
One of the goals for the day was to go to this Lush store we had walked by the day before. Turns out it's the flagship store and it was 3 floors full of amazing smelling bath and beauty products. Ally loved it!! She picked out some bath bombs and a lotion bar. We have a huge tub in our hotel room, so she was looking forward to using a bomb in it later that night. After Lush we walked back to the British Museum.
First stop was the Parthenon Room, the British literally took pieces of the Parthenon and brought the, back to England.
The large scale of the room was impressive.
The King RamessesII statue, taken from the pyramid in Egypt.
More Egyptian artifacts.
This is the famous Easter Island statue. We saw it the day before, but Becky some how missed it and wanted to be to see it yesterday. We walked in and Ally looks at me and says "we were here yesterday, I saw that yesterday"! I laughed and explained we saw it but mama missed it. Becky was a good sport, and agreed to a picture in front of it to prove she saw it this day.
This Chinese vase is what inspired Cameos.
In the money and coin exhibit this Andy Warhol original print was on display. It was fun to see an American piece.
Ally and I split up from Becky and Annabel for a while, on the way to the gift shop Ally let me take her picture. She was getting pretty tired, but the promise of the gift shop cheered her up.
Becky explored the clock room, that is a clock above
And saw the famous chess figures, which are considered one of the earliest game pieces in the world.
We walked to the hospital then, had a break in another beautiful London garden on the way met up with Isobel and headed out to dinner.
Ally was very hungry and was excited to have a chocolate milkshake and fries again. We were at another burger restaurant. Annabel and Isobel's choice and treat so we didn't complain at all.
These two. Friends made under less than ideal circumstances. But friends nonetheless.
It was difficult to say goodbye to Isobel as she now will be staying as an inpatient at the hospital without daily visits from her parents for several weeks. They will get to see each other every couple of days for a few hours, but that is all. It's a program meant to teach Isobel how to deal with her mental and physical health on her own with less dependence on her parents. I told her she was very brave, they all are.
Then it was back to our room, a bath for Ally and a late night to bed.
Break over, time to head out to the London Eye. We aren't sure if we will ride it, but Ally has asked to see it up close!
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