A day out

Dan offered to watch Bellies while I went down to London with 2 friends and had a blast. The girls (we have a total of 9 girls between us all) were down in London for a school trip to the science museum so we three took the opportunity of kids in school all day to plan a day for ourselves. Okay...so we really didn't plan but that's what made it kind of fun. I think half way on the the train ride to London, one of them asked, so what are we going to do. And so we did what we wanted, window shopped, ate, walked around in the cold, ate and saw parts of London I would have never thought to go see. We didn't do the typical tourist sites....we went to, okay to be honest I can't even remember the names of the market places but we did go to Smithfield and found out that's where William Wallace was drug by horses (so our history bit of the trip) but then we went to Westfield Centre, and OH MY GOSH....SO nice!!! It is a must do again for shopping. It was nice to have to go up the escalator to go to our level of shopping. The bottom were stores like like, Tiffany and Co...Christian Dior, Prada, Louis Vuitton, Jimmy Choo....yeah must be nice....champagne bars where regular malls would have those cell phone kiosks....yeah it was kind of upscale on the ground floor.

And so we went upstairs to Top Shop and checked out clothing possibilities for Club Tropicana (it's a school thing for the adults) and it's amazing...I felt like I was back in time at the age of 6 seeing all those 80s fashions. Going down to London, I always feel like..oh my gosh....I so need to come down here more to catch up on the fashions and I love seeing how people are dressed up...makes me want to dress up again like pre-kid days. And the fact I need to get a tan since the colors that are in are so not good with my pale skin. How I love the big city life...the fast pace, the big buildings, crowded streets with cars and pedestrians, taking the tube....it makes me feel alive. I have so much more energy out there....I could so picture myself if I didn't have any kids (which of course I don't wish but if I didn't) living out in a little flat right in the city. And yet, I married a man who doesn't like the big cities....he is crazy.

So much fun with such fabulous friends.

Oh and the kiddos had a blast at the Science Museum. And they loved the packed lunches...isn't it funny how kids remember the funniest things....they talked about their lunch I had made and how awesome it was and the coach ride. They liked the garden in the museum as well....but really that's all they talked about. It's sometimes like pulling teeth to get any information from them.