Weekend visitors – Number 2

Last weekend I was lucky enough to have my third set of visitors!
My sister in law, Sharon and Kai (my nephew) came for a weekend visit.
They too arrived late on Friday night, after the long evening train ride from Nottingham.
On Saturday we took our time eating breakfast and getting ready and then headed off to fashionable Chelsea to a restaurant which has a children’s indoor play area in the basement. There we spent a fun afternoon with Sharon’s friend, Sandy and her children eating lunch and chatting.
I nominated myself to take Kai downstairs to the play area before and after lunch.
He was a little overwhelmed at all the noisy children and the huge play area which is like a large padded jungle gym with lots of slides and tubes to wiggle through.
As a result, he insisted I come with him. So it was off with my shoes (to embarrassingly find I had a hole in one of my socks) and the afternoon saw me wriggling through the tubes, sliding down slides and wading through plastic balls. I felt quite stiff and exhausted after my thorough workout!
After that we rushed off to meet another friend Sharon’s and her husband for coffee near Trafalgar Square.
We were terribly late meeting them. The London tubes were very busy and it took three tubes on the Piccadilly line passing us by before there was enough space for 3 more to fit on.
We had a lovely time drinking coffee and chatting, before wondering through Trafalgar Square and looking at the fountains. The fountains were spraying water sideways all over us tourists because of a brisk wind!


The next day had us off to Regent’s Park to visit the London Zoo.
Kai was totally in his element, and loved the big fish in the aquarium (will he grow up to be a marine biologist I wonder? ;-)
We also visited the gorillas, the tigers and lions, the farm animals and the wriggly snakes. It was really fun!


Once Sharon and Kai were safely on the train, I made my way to Richmond and met a friend for a very late lunch and a walk along the Thames.
I was so tired from my excursions earlier in the day at the zoo, I was practically too tired to talk!

All in all a wonderful weekend!

Picture 1: A fantastic display of sea anemone in the aquarium at the zoo.
Picture 2: Sharon and Kai on a gorilla
Picture 3: The sunset over the Thames in Richmond