Beanie Went Shopping!!!

Yesterday, Saturday 11th, Andrea said we were Going Shopping!!  I love Going Shopping!!

First of all we went to the train station.....

I made sure we left a tag on the table!!

I love looking out of the window on the train......

Oh, here we are crossing the Thames River!!  We're nearly there!!

And there's the number 73 waiting for us again!!!

I tied a tag onto the seat in front!!

Here we are going past Hyde Park...

We got off at Tottenham Court Road again and went past Freddie Mercury,

And we came to an Art Shop!!!!  We went in and bought some stuff....

and outside, I found a Paris Metro ticket!!!

Andrea had to go for a wee, so I tied another tag to the door.

(that was in the British Museum up the road)

And then we went to the bus stop round the corner.  Hey, the number 29 goes to Trafalgar Square!!  We could've done that with Bob and Dilly had we known about it!!!

Well, there's always next time...

We tied another tag on the seat in front....

And here we are going down the road.....

And we got off opposite another art shop!!!  Let's go in!!!

After we'd spent more money in there, we got hungry so we went in here.

We had a fizzy drink....

And left a tag on the pudding list stand!!!

 We got salmon fish cakes and Fries for lunch and they were YUMTASTIC!!!!

 Then we walked down the road to Trafalgar Square

 There was a big event on there, we think about basketball and cheerleading and a thing called "Shooting Hoops."  All a bit confusing to me...

 There's Nelson's Column.

 It then started to rain and also got a bit bonkers busy so we decided to get the number 11 bus back to the station.

 And tied another tag to the seat in front!!!

 Here we are..... but first Andrea said we had to go and look at something!!!

 OH!!!

 That's really weird.....

Some chappie fell head first into the park!!!

We then saw it was a statue!!

Then we went off to catch our train home - and left another tag on the table in front!!

 Then we got the train back home....

 There's Battersea Power Station.

 and on the way home....

 Then we found another grafitti'd cable box!!!

 And then down the road to get the bus home.

 When we got home, I got out the bits that I found!!!  Two subway tickets, two elastic hair ties and two free samples!!!!!

We got a box of 10 empty tubes for when we make paint as well!!!

We also found all they way down the back of the shop a little box filled with Gouache paint on sale, but they only had it in Magenta pink or Cadmium Lemon yellow, so we got one tube of each colour!

At the other art shop, we got 2 Khadi paper square sketchbooks and another travel paint brush!

This brush has a flat straight edge....

 And we got given an information thingy and a free postcard!!!

 And at Victoria Station, we bought a bubble bath bar from Lush!  It's smelly!

 and we also got a tiny little jar of hand cream for £1 and all the money goes to charity.  Andrea's already used some of this, she really likes it!!!

Beanie and the Gang went to London!!!

Yesterday, the 5th of May, Andrea said we were all going on A Special Outing!!!  YAAAY!!

First of all, we went up the road to get the bus, going that way.

The bus didn't go all the way to the train station so we got off here - the Clock Tower has clothes on!!!!  Andrea said it got Clothes-Bombed for the start of the Brighton Festival yesterday!!

We found some more cable boxes!!

this is a strange one....

But the frog at the top is funny!!

We found a new Panda too!!

and a cassette toaster?!?!

And  a very weird animal......

We thought we were going to get a 10:20 train but there wasn't one, so we got the 10:04 slow train to London!  I left a tag on the seat in front!!

And we're going over the viaduct now!!

Then we got into London and the 73 bus was waiting just for us!!  Excellent!

I tied another tag to the seat in front!!

And we got off here, at Tottenham Court Road!!  We walked up past Freddie Mercury at the Dominion Theatre.....

And then went up Great Russell Street past a really good art shop called Cornellison's!!

Oh!  We're going to see this special expedition!!

First of all we went for a wee and left one of Fleur's tags in the toilet!!  Hahahaaaa!!

Then we went to the main gates because we were waiting for Bob and Dilly!!!!  We waited for ages and they texted us to say the trains were messed up - REALLY messed up! - and they were going to be late!!!

OH NO!!

Then suddenly, Bob and Dilly rang us, and said they'd got a bit lost and were round at the back entrance to the museum but couldn't find the front entrance!!!!!  Andrea didn't know where the back entrance was but said just go in, and head for the Great Courtyard and we'll see you there!!!  And this was at 2 p.m. which is when our timed tickets said we had to go in!!!

AND THEN THEY MADE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We all gave a big huge cheer!!  Bob and Dilly's Mum was in a right ol' tizz and nearly in floods of tears and about to go home but we gave them all a big hug and said let's go see the Pompeii expedition first since you're here!!

It was a brilliant expedition too, with loads of stuff to see.

Some of it was quite rude though.... tee hee!!

After we'd had a good look round the expedition AND the gift shop (the best bit!) we were all starvin' marvin' so we went down to Tas, the greeky turkish type restaurant for a Big Lunch.  They brought us a garlicy yoghurty dip and some olives and TWO HELPINGS of bread because we ate the first lot so quickly!!

But it was good bread though...!

Oh, and then Tango gave Bob his favourite blue gel marker pen as a present!!

And George gave Dilly a piece of pink fabric with a Chinese dragon on it!!!

For Lunch, Andrea had a Taboulleh salad..... didn't last long...!

and then had a Chicken Shish with couscouse which is that pile of orange stuff with pink beetroot on top.

That didn't last long either...!

 After that, we went for a stroll down Gower Street to look at the blue plaques on walls where famous people lived.....

 And found some more drain covers!!!!!

 Then, Bob and Dilly said oh, there's a 73 coming soon to Victoria Station - why don't we come and wave you off at the station??  We said oh yeah, that's a good idea - so we all got on and went up to the top deck and sat at the back!

Tied another tag to the seat in front!!

 Tango and Bob decided to wave at everyone out of the window (bob wanted to poo on them like the pidgeons do but his Mum wouldn't let him.)  They were very pleased that they had matching sweaters on!!

Bob said that Tango glows in the dark now, when he wears it!!!

 We're going down Oxford Street here!

 And we saw a bagpiper!  He was making a right bleedin' racket..... noise pollution, that is.

And here we are on Park Lane with a funny statue!!

When we got to Victoria Station, we arrived with 10 minutes to spare for the next Brighton train!

We all did lots of big hugs again - I love meeting Bob and Dilly and their Mum!!  It was a brilliant day out!

 And here we are on the train going past Battersea Power Station....

 Tied another tag onto the seat in front!!

 And here we are going down past the Clock Tower again!!  It's still got clothes on!!!

 Then we got the bus back home....

And had a good ol' look at what Andrea got us in the gift shop!  We've got a DVDVD to watch too!!

What a fab day out!