Fast Cars, Museums, and Spring

We have just been hanging around town the past couple weeks, enjoying the beginning of spring.  Here's the recap in pictures.

Here are some beautiful pictures of our city that Tari and Chris took on the London Eye when they visited.  Here is St Paul's Cathedral

A great one of the Houses of Parliament

Tyler loves inspecting the community vegetable gardens that are planted near where we go to swim class.  It has been fun to watch the bean stalks grow and talk to him about how the flowers will become berries.  Maybe someday when we have hopefully at least a patch of green space of our own, we can grow a garden!

Hey look - the ducks are back in the water!

Tyler outside the British Museum - our first time there.

The Rosetta Stone.  The museum is so huge it's overwhelming.  There are artifacts there from all over the world.  We only got to the Greek and Egyptian exhibits and then Tyler made it clear he was ready to leave.  

Whoa!

The lollipop helped make the museum more fun.  

Hello birdie!

Um, Dad, this cat has earrings and a nose ring.  It does not look like the kitties I know!

The Nereid Monument 

Parthenon sculptures

This is more like it!  We went for a swing at nearby park, Coram's Fields 

For JJ's birthday I got him this racing adventure where he could drive fast cars.  Two other women in my playgroup also got it for their husbands so the dudes went for a kid-free Saturday morning with fast cars.

It's hard to see but JJ is in the driver's seat (on the right of course).  I'm a big dork and got the "picture package" so that he could have a picture to take home to me for the blog!

While the boys raced, the girls took the kids to the zoo.  It was a nice day and all the animals were super active!  Here this camel was out for a walk.  I thought it was super cool to get this close to the camel but Tyler was more entertained by my sunglasses.

Rooooaaaar! The lions were the most active I've ever seen them.  There were roaring and getting really close to the glass.

Hi Raa Raa!  Raa Raa the Noisy Lion is Tyler's favorite TV show here so he really enjoys lions.

Hi penguins!!!

Everything is in bloom here, it is beautiful!

I went to rugby with Tyler and JJ last Sunday for the first time to check it out.  Tyler is definitely a little young for the class but he seems to have fun.  He is such a polite boy, it's adorable.  There is one part of class where the coach runs around with flags velcro'd to his belt and the kids chase him around the gym and try to grab a flag.  Tyler chases him but then would stop right in front of him as if to ask permission to take a flag.  The other kids just grab the flags and run on.  The coach is really good and picked up on it, so he started to show Tyler which flag to take.  After Tyler saw that, then he would grab the flag the coach showed him.  Hopefully he toughens up a bit for future flag football games :)