Beanie and the Gang went to London!!

Yesterday, Andrea said we were all going on a day out!!  How exciting!!

Tango and George had a ride in Andrea's backpack while I helped take the photos.

Wonder where we're going?

Oh!  Train Station!!  Excellent!!

We're in London again!!  Wonder what we'll do...

First of all we used the toilets for a wee.  I lost a CD on the back of the door!!!!

After we got a present for Dilly at the Lush shop (more later!!) we went to the C10 bus stop again!

And we're off! Wonder if it's still on Diversion??

I tied a weathergram to the seat in front!!  We didn't do the Diversion this time.....

And we got off here, the last stop which is Canada Water!

Hang on, we came near here for the Manga show in May!!

We had a snoop round and found the Canada Water Library!!  Andrea says we're meeting someone and then coming back here for an Expedition!!!  How fun!!

Then a few minutes later, Sam showed up!!!!!

He lives with Bob and Dilly!!!!!

YAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY!!!!!

We'd come here to see the Sketchbook Project World Tour 2012!  Bob and Dilly's Mum had done a sketch book (the one with the boat on it!) and it's now in a special Sketchbook Expedition!!!

We looked at some other sketchbooks too!  this one looks like a relative!

Andrea says he's called Racoon.

He was drawn by www.ireneairin.blogspot.com

We'll have to pop in there later and say hello!

Helena made me a badge!!  We didn't do a sketchbook this year but I think we'll do one for next year!

This one was really pretty....

That was drawn by www.spacebubblegoespop.blogspot.com

We'll go visit them too!

Then we were all hungry and tried to find somewhere to eat.  First we walked over to the shopping mall for a look round.  They had a "Food Court" but that consisted of an upstairs Burger King which was full of screaming noisy kids so we didn't want to stay there.  It had a Very Scary Downhill Escalator too and Helena had to help Andrea go down it!!!  Then we came back to the Canda Water library cafe and had lunch there instead.

But first George gave Dilly the present we bought!

It was a Special Pink Bath Bomb with confetti in it and smelt yummy!!

We had lasagna for lunch because that's all that was left.

That was all that was left because the pasta part was radioactive yellow and very thick and it didn't taste very good.  Both Andrea and Helena left half of it each because they didn't like it much - and that's saying a lot because Andrea usually stuffs her face and Helena usually licks the plate clean.

Then George got a present from Dilly.  It was a pink and white beaded croco-wagon!!!

Isn't it fab!!!

We used the toilets again for a wee - and Tango left a CD on the toilet door!!

YIPPEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!  Hahahahaaaa!

Then we got another bus to go somewhere else.

Bob and Tango had a good look out the window...

And so did Beanie and Dilly!!

We also had a ride in Helena's bag!!

We went to the Brunel Museum and rode the silver train!!!

ALL OF US!!!

George and Dilly sat together.

And Sam sat at the back.

WHOAA!!  WHO SLAMMED ON THE EMERGENCY BRAKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh that was fun!!  Then Bob gave Tango a present - a choccie Topic bar!!  Tango's Favourite!!

We went into the Brunel Museum and Bob and Tango watched a film about Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

He was good at burrowing making tunnels.

Then we went into the little cafe and found a Sam-sized train to play in!

THEN we had MORE CAKE!!!  YUM!

We had the chocolate one.

And Bob had the coffee one.

Then Bob and Sam played on the train.

Then it was time to go home.

We took Helena back to Canada Water and all had a big hug goodbye.

We had so much fun today!!  We like seeing Helena and Bob and Dilly - and even Sam too!!!

Then we got on the C10 bus back to Victoria station - and tied another weathergram to the seat in front!!

That's the Shard building...

And the Houses of Idiots and Big Ben.

And we got off here....

And there was a train waiting for us at the platform!!

It was really busy and got dark very quickly so we didn't take any pictures....

Until we walked home the other end....

What a lovely day out

We found books!!!

On our way home yesterday, we saw a big plastic box on the pavement (sidewalk) full to brimming with paperback books and a sign on it saying "Free books, help yourself".

We had a good rummage and picked out TEN BOOKS - most of them were Agatha Christie mystery books!!  We've registered them on Bookcrossing - our bookshelf is all the way at the bottom of this screenpage if you want to scroll down and look - but anyways, if there's any there that are marked as "AVL" which means "Available" then please say.  We can mail them out!!!

AND we sold a tube of hand made oil paint and a sheet of wrapping paper off my etsy shop, too!!!  Yippee!!

Beanie Went to the Tate Britain!!!

Yesterday, me and Andrea had a day off work and we went somewhere fab!!!

First of all, we went up to the train station and got on a train to London!!!

It was busy but we found Andrea's friend Emma on the same train.  She's coming with us!!

How fun!!!

When we got off the train, we went out the side entrance and got the C10 bus.  We had to wait a while though, but that was OK!!

Oh here we go!!  We're off!!!

Andrea got out a weathergram to tie onto the seat in front but Emma started squealing so we let her tie it on!!!  She did a good job too!!!

 Then we discovered the C10 bus was on a Detour and didn't stop at the stop we needed.  So we got off on a different stop and walked a little bit..... We saw that sculpture thing and Emma said that the building behind it is where MI6 is and that's where James Bond learnt to be a spy!!!

Bob T Bear's a spy.  Wonder if he went there too?  Wonder if he knows Q and Miss Moneypenny??

Anyway, then we came here which is the Tate Britain building!!!

First of all, we stopped for coffee and chocolate cake.  That's very important you know.

Then we went for a pee and I tied another weathergram to the door!!!  hahahaahaaaa!!

Then we had to walk up this staircase!  Isn't it fab!!!

Lots of different colours!!

Oh!!  We're going in here!!!

This was quite a fun expedition really..... we had a go at drawing one of Turner's sketches.  Emma's looked a little Japanesey....

And Andreas's just looked like a messy scribble but all her sketches look like that!!!

After that, we had a wander round the museum looking at Turner's paintings and some of Constables paintings.  They were fun to look at!!  Then we came down the fancy staircase again.

After looking in the giftshop, we decided it was time for lunch at the station.  But we had to figure out where to get the bus back!!

Nope, it's not down here....

Then we walked along the river for a bit.

Oh!!  That brown building is part of the Houses of Parliament where all the bastards idiots run the country from!

Ah!  This bus goes to victoria!!  Let's get this one!!!

Andrea took a wobbly picture on the bus!!!

We were all really hungry by now, so we stopped for a late lunch.

Andrea got a fizzy drink.....

And a super huge burger with chips!!

YUMMMMM!!!

Then it was time to go home!!  What a fun day out!!

I tied another weathergram on the train!!  Hahahaa!!

And here we are walking home from the station..... it just started to rain by now, so I think we got home just at the right time!!!

Andrea showed me her shopping later!  She got some snazzy art papers and some postcard!

And also a pink bubble bar from the Lush shop!  It's smelly!!!

Note to Alexander....

This is the most recent mail we had from you...
http://found-art.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/another-canadian-letter.html

And the one before that was your postcard from Berlin...... are either of those what you're referring to??