Birthday adventure day one

We were put in charge of Packing today!!  We're going somewhere!!!

When we were done, we went to the bus stop outside!!

We didn't have to wait long for the coach to arrive!

And then we left a bookcrossing book in the thingy on the seat in front!

We made a video going past the Royal Pavilion!

And made another video later on!

WE GOT JAFFA CAYKES!!

When we started nibbling them though, Andrea had to take the pictures one-handed!

They're a bit wobbly these pictures!

See what I mean??!?!

But we did all eat them!!!

It's a lovely ride, this is, you know.....

And we remembered to tie a floppy disc to the seat as well!!!

Wonder where we're going....

We're in London!

There's some fancy tiles on those houses....!

OH!  We're in Stockwell, that's in south London!!

We're going over the Thames!!!

What?  Eh?  What are we going round here for?!?!  The coach doesn't come round the front of the train station!!!!?!?!

But we're here!!!  We arrived on time!!

And then we just had to come down here.....

And we're going to use the Underground!!!  We went onto the District and Circle line but there was maintenance on part of the track so we had to change onto the Piccadilly and then....

When we got here, we went back to the District line!!!

And there was further instructions for us!!!

It wasn't too long for a train to come and get us, and we gave them a CD!

And we got off here at the very last stop!!!

We weren't too sure where to go but Andrea followed her map and we went past Arnty Bev's house!!

And we went past where Virginia Woolf lived too!

And then arrived here!!!  Are we staying here?? Really!?!?!

We got a room on the first floor all to ourselves!!!  It's BRILLIANT!!!

While I was jumping on the bed, Jelly and String checked the view....

Not much of one, but that's OK.  We're not here for the view!!!

OO!  Tea making facilities!!  Let's have a cuppa tea!!

The bathroom's weeny.  There's no free stuff to take home either.  That's OK, I don't do barthin.  It's not healthy.  Not for mice.

A bit later on, we went out because we were getting hungry.  There's a new place opening up soon, a Persian restaurant.  Shame they're not open now though.....

We went in here for lunch!!

We got a fizzy drink in.....

And a pepperoni pizza!!! Yum!!  (the bottom was a big soggy though, but we were all too hungry to care!!)

Then we had to go find a bus stop - and found an interesting shop sign on the way!

Oh!  Is this our bus stop?!?!

AHA!  We got a number 65 bus from there..... and we're off on our expedition!  Well, another expedition because we already had one getting here!!

We gave them a floppy disc!

We got off here - but we think it was a bus stop too early, we're not sure.

OH!  It was a bit too early!  We can see two horses in there - can you see them?!

And there's a yellow statue down there too!!!

See?!  A little zebra and a horse!!!

Then we eventually found the entrance!!!  We're at Kew Gardens!!!!!!!!!

Can you see that blue one behind us???!

First of all we walked over here......

They had Chinese lions here!  We didn't know that!

That's an amazing greenhouse isn't it?!

Wow!

We walked all the way round the lake!  It's amazing!

We managed to get a photo of the Chinese Lions from the other side of the lake!!

The Chinese Lions are over there on the opposite side of the lake!

We made a video of it!

Then we found these ones!

And then walked round to the front of the greenhouse!

Then we went over to the waterlilies greenhouse!!!

And made a video of the inside!

It's brilliant in here!

There were lots of different coloured lillies (real ones!) that had opened!

Then we decided to go for a walk round part of the Gardens we hadn't been to before

They had some pretty flowers here

And a big thingummybob - we think it's for climbing roses to climb up.

We found mushrooms too!  We didn't eat any though.

They got some amazing trees here, all weird shapes!

And some were going orange!

There was a pretty little lake here too, so we sat down for a rest!

Oh wow!  There's another statue!

And a face!  It's made out of metal leaves!!

Then we found another bench for a sit down and left a bookcrossing book on it!

Oh wow!

We came back here and did a drawing of that view (we'll show you later!)

I think that's our favourite!!

We made another video too!

Those lions are brilliant!

 

It's a statue of ScoobyDoo!!

Then we carried on walking and found a holly bush....

And another weird looking tree!

Ooo there's some purple glass reeds!

See?!?!

We're going towards the temperate house now....

Oh wow!!

These are just amazing!

Coo!

You can just peek the bloo ones there!

Love these too!

We made another video in here too!

Love those shiney ones!

Can you see our reflection in those?!?!

We found these too - think we missed these last time!

That chandalier is amazing!

We missed that one last time too!

Wow!

I remember that one, though!

And that one!!

Then we went back outside and made another video!

After that, we went for another walk and found more mushrooms!

Oh, there's that yellow one again!  We saw that when we walked past on the street!

It's where the horses are!

And the zebra!!

We decided to leave a CD on the gate there!!

And then on the way back to the main gate we left some more!

And this one as well!

Oh wow!!!  That tree behind has gone red and orange!!!

After a spot of shopping in the gift shop (we'll show you later!) we decided we were pooped so we went back to the hotel.....

there's our bus stop over there!

And we got off here!

Then it was just a short walk up the road to the hotel!

We had a cuppa tea while Andrea finished off her sketch!  (she used watercolour pencils!)

Then we all got new stamps in our passports!  Hurray!!

Later on we got hungry so we decided to eat dinner here

It's called Hilltribe and it's a Thai restaurant!

First of all we got a beer! We don't normally have beer!!!

Then we got spring rolls - they were either Thai or Vietnamese spring rolls but they weren't crunchy ones like the Chinese spring rolls.  They had veggies and prawns in and came with a yummy sauce too!

We also got soft shell crabs that had been fried in another sauce and that was REALLY yummy too!

After that, we all crawled back to the hotel and went to bed!

We're exhaustipated!!!!  But what a fun day!