Goodbye London!

Tonight is our last night in London!  We successfully moved out of our flat today after a long two days. I felt so bad for the movers.  The staircase leading up to our flat is narrow and winding and up 3 flights.  They were really working hard both days, and now that I'm 6 months pregnant I was especially thankful to not have to do any lifting.  Tyler was great through the move.  It was hard to keep him entertained while we were stuck in the house and feeling in the way.  But he made friends with the movers and tried to help sometimes.  He did have a hard time watching them pack up his beloved toys but he seemed to accept my explanation that they were taking a little boat ride and that they would have a great story to tell him when they saw him in Chicago.  And he liked our "picnic" meals on the floor or sitting on boxes.  It's such a relief to be out and have everything buttoned up on this end.  Now we just need to make it through the flight which should be a piece of cake and then get settled in the US.  We are really excited to jump back into life in Chicago.  Tyler keeps asking if we are in our new home yet :)

Here is the recap from our last week here in London!

We went for one last London lunch with Daddy near his work.  Tyler had to go check out this row of fast motorcycles.

We had one last trip to Tyler's favorite lunch spot by JJ's work, Byrons.  It's a burger place.  He loves the cheeseburger and fries and of course the milkshake at the end!  Not sure why he insisted on drinking out of this tiny bowl, but he was happy!

We had a great photographer follow us around London on Saturday to take some shots of us near Big Ben and then in Hampstead to commemorate our time here.  She sent along this one as a teaser.  I can't wait to see the rest!

Here is another at Trafalgar Square

The crepe stand by our flat is only open Thursday - Sunday so Sunday night we had to get one last crepe!  Big T was pretty excited!

But however, Big T does not like to be messy and was VERY upset when chocolate squirted onto his favorite Superman shirt.  

He recovered well and kept on eating though!

For our last day together in London before the movers came I wanted to go to Leicester Square to pick up some London souvenirs for his new room in Chicago (going to have a transportation/London theme).  I asked Tyler what he wanted to do in addition to that and he said,  "Ride a double decker bus!"  I thought that sounded like a great idea so we took the tube down to Leicester Square and then got the best seat at the top front of bus on the way home.  We both had a blast! 

We had dinner with the playgroup boys one more time to say goodbye.

For the last night in the flat we also had a lot of bubbles to use up so we had a big, giant foam party!   

Surrounded by boxes!!!

Moving is exhausting!  Tyler couldn't keep his eyes open on the ride from the flat to the hotel.  He also never let go of my old blackberry that he found while we were packing and claimed as his own!