Beanie's trip to London AND my 500th Post!!!

 Last Sunday, we got up early and went for a walk.  We saw a cat looking out of his window!!!  We stopped and waved!!

 Then we got up to the train station!!  Oh!  We're going somewhere!!!  how fab...!

 Here we are waiting at the platform.....

We got on a train to London and our friend Emma was on it!!!  It was super dooper busy though and we didn't have any elbow space to take pictures.

 And we finally arrived at London!!!

We had to go to the bus stop to the right of this picture to get a number 11 bus.

 And we tied a weathergram to the handrail!!

 We watched out of the window carefullly....

 Until we got here!!!  This is called Aldwych.

 Then we crossed over to get to Somerset House!  We got this picture of a pretty church AND a telephone box AND a fancy lamppost AND a London double decker bus ALL IN THE SAME PICTURE!!  How fab is THAT?!!

 We're going to see an Expedition about a chap called Albrecht Durer!!!

Andrea says he's really good at drawing.

We saw the Christmas tree again too.  There were loads of people skating there today.

 First of all we all went for a wee.  I tied a CD to the door!!
(Ed's note: This is CD 150 and has been officially found on www.found-art.blogspot.com and is now a Christmas Tree decoration!!!)

 Then we stopped for coffee.  Slurp!

 Oh!  I remember these gratings!  They're really pretty!!!

We started up on the 2nd floor (which in America is the 3rd floor because you don't have a ground floor, you go from basement to first floor)  That's where the Special Expedition was and it was really good!  We also saw some Seurat paintings which are the dotty impressionist ones.  Emma really liked those, so did I!

 Then we went to the 1st floor which is the American 2nd floor.  We saw this floor grating and lots more impressionist paintings by Cezanne and Van Gogh.  They were really good, we enjoyed those!!

 Then we went to the basement cafe which is in the American basement as well as the English one, because that's where the cafe is and we were hungry!!

I had a fizzy drink!

 Then we had this for lunch!!!  In a PAN???!!

 OH!!  It's tomato and basil soup (and a big portion too!) with a cheesey chive scone with a dollop of butter.

YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!

We scoffed all of that very quickly!!

 Then we all decided to have Cake.  I had a chocolate Brownie.  Which was yumtastic!!

And Emma had a Black Forest Gateaux!  That looks fab!  Can I lick your plate please?!!!

 Then we went for another wee and I left another CD in a different cubicle!!!

 Then we had a walk up to Covent Garden which isn't very far away!!  We went past a cake shop!

 And met some bears!!

 And then arrived at Covent Garden!  We saw Rudolph with a red nose!!

 And an enormous Christmas Tree!!

 AND a snow globe you could walk through and the buildings are all made of lego bricks!!!

 There's the Shard and the Millenium wheel!!!

 And the other side had Big Ben and St Pauls Cathedral...

 And even had the Gherkin in it!!!

There's Big Ben again!!

All lego bricks!!

 And that building there isn't really a building.  It's a piece of fabric disguising some scaffolding!!!

 Then we walked back towards Somerset House again and went past the Savoy Hotel!  Their topiary cats have ribbons on!!

 And they've got trees up too!!

 Then we had to get a bus back to the station.  Oh, the number 11 is ours, in 2 minutes time!!

 And we tied another weathergram onto the railing again!!

 And I just about got a picture of Big Ben!!

 There's Westminster Abbey.....

 And here we are back at the station again.  We had to wait a long time for the train home as there was only one an hour.... and then they didn't tell us what platform it was on until 3 minutes before departure and everybody had to run through the barriers!!!

But we all got on and got a seat and watched the world go by!!!

 And then it was just a short walk home from the station!!!

 Gosh that was fun!!!

 We got some of these postcards.....

 And some of these postcards....

 And one of them - apparently that hand in the top right hand side is a really rude gesture!!!!!

And we got one of these as well!!

 We also got a Bubble Bar from the Lush shop at Victoria Station before we came home!!  These smell fabulous!!

 When we got home, we discovered a box waiting for us.  what is it???!

Andrea says it's a Wee Fee Gizmo....... oh!  What's a gizmo???

Travelling art book update

 We found out this week that the travelling art journal seems to have gone missing somewhere between UK and USA, so we're starting again with a new one - this yellow covered one!!  We've sent it straight over to Dawn in America (who's going to send it on to Alexander in Canada) and we're using the same bookcrossing.com ID number to track it.

 Inside front cover with library check-out card.

 Same rules apply - nothing edible, wooden, plant life, bugs, etc, to comply with Australian import regulations, otherwise anything goes.  Use any page or pages, anywhere in the book and draw/paint what you want.

there's stuff in the back pocket - help yourself to anything in it to use on your page(s) and you can leave more stuff in it for someone else to use.

Main Rule - Have Fun!!!

We got our tree up!!!

 We put our tree up this week!!!!

 We took some pictures of some of the decorations..... that's a glass present from the Isle of Wight.

 There's a brass Santa in a Sleigh with Rudolf from America and one of our mirror balls!!!

 You can just about see a wire star that we got somewhere over here.....

 And Tango's favourite, a brown bear that was a present last year and a purple one that Lesa sent us from America!!

 We got a wooden santa as well....

 And you can just see the Starship Enterprise there too!!!

Then we sang our favourite Christmas song....

We three Bears of Orient are...

Licking out the old hunny jar....

Yummy hunny in our Tummy - 

What lucky Bears we are!!!!!

We forgot to do a Happy Thanking List....!

Last week in America they had a thing called Thanks Giving where they eat lots of food and make a happy thanking list. 

Here's mine....

1.  I'm really happy that I still get to blog lots and talk to my friends!!
2.  I'm really happy that Sullivan McPig had such a grand time when he visited me last month.
3.  I'm not happy that Bob and Dilly got burgled but I AM happy that they didn't get kidnapped, and they're all safe.
4.  I'm really happy that I've got a nice place to live in.
5.  I'm really happy that Andrea still has a job and has enough money to take me places!!
6.  I'm really happy that we have poached salmon to eat a lot.
7.  I'm really happy that we donated some food to the Fair Share charity last Sunday.  (they collect food for the homeless and the elderly and the famillies that are struggling to buy their own food)
8.  I'm really happy that I have so many friends in blogland.
9.  I'm really happy that I thought of so many things to be happy about!!!!!
10.  I can't think of a number 10 but if it occurs to me later I'll come back and fill it in.  OH - I'm really happy we've got our Christmas tree up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Hhahahaahahaa!!

Did you make a happy thanking list this year??

More random pictures!!

 A few days ago, we had loads of rain overnight...... and a VERY large puddle the next day!!!

 Then I found a CD that I can alter!!!

And I got a poppy to remember people with!!!