Out for a quickie.......

 

A Day Out!!

Well, we were planning on going up to London on Thursday to meet a friend, but she had to cancel.  So we re-arranged to meet up today instead! We saw some weird gadgets on the way to the station!

And off we go!

We're leaving from here today!

And the train was rammed solid, arse to elbow all the way to London!

But we managed to finally wangle a window seat to get videos from!!

Huzzah!

There's the Battersea Power Station chimneys over there!

And we're crossing the Thames!!

Right ho, where to next Jeeves?

We went round the corner to get a bus....

Specifically this one!!

This one got a beer mat!

Oooo that's pretty!

Another interesting building!

There's Horrids!!

And we got off the bus here at South Kensington Station!  We're a bit early so we decided to have a wander round.

And saw a painted raccoon on a book shop window!

We're meeting our friend here for dinner!  That's her in blue!

We went in and got a table - we decided just to have water to drink because it's hot.

And we got a Neopolitan pizza, it was yummy!!!

AND we got a pistachio icecream!!!

Later on, we walked over to the V&A museum.  We're going to see an expedition!

There's the Dale Chihuly chandalier!

Isn't it fab!

We had a bit of a wander round and saw a weird statue with a horse head on top.

Bizarre....

Then it was time to go to the expedition.  It's a Schiaparelli expedition!

She's an Italian clothes designer..... let's go and see!!!

There was jewellery there too....

And paintings.  Schiparelli worked alongside surrealist painters, including Dali and Picasso.

Wonder if this is where Madonna got the idea from?

She did perfume as well....

And more jewelllery!

Wowzers!!!  We had a look round the gift shop and then decided to part company with our friend.  It was a fab day out!  We headed off to the bus stop.....

And got the C1 back to the station.

They got a CD!

Ooo there's balloons over there!

We spotted some bears too!!

And here we are back at the station!!

We had to wait a while for a train but we got a window seat!

There's Battersea Power Station over there!

And we crossed the Thames again!  We had a long snooze on the way back and completely missed the Balcombe viaduct!!

But we woke up in time to get off at the right station!!

Andrea got some more bubble bars at Lush before we got on the train so she's proper happy!

What fun!!