The Queens Birthday parade!

Today we woke the kids up early and dragged them to the tube to head to the Queens birthday parade. The ceremony is called Trooping the Colours. We got there early enough to secure a great spot to watch everything pass by right in front of us. Here are a few of my favorite pictures from today. 

On the way to the parade we stopped to buy a program. 

After the parade we walked across the park and headed towards Big Ben. This is a shot of Buckingham Palace on our walk. 

Westminster Abbey was even more stunning in person. 

The kids really enjoyed seeing Big Ben. I had a picture were they were both smiling but seeing Finn's personality is much better! 

Clearly at this point he was tired of having his picture made. We had a wonderful day and are so thankful to be able to experience such beauty.  Miss you all tons!! 

Love always,

Catherine 

Sunshiny days in London

Sorry it has been so long since I have filled you all in on how we are and what we are up too. We have been busy getting settled and trying to find our way in this beautiful city!

We have had plenty of time to break in our new rainboots. Thankfully lately though we have had some beautiful sunshine. It has been quite warm for London this past week too. ( not southern warm but between 70 and 75 here so nice to enjoy being outside) However most homes here don't have air conditioning, ours being one of those, so it is hard to keep cool 😉. 

The kids have gotten scooters to make it a little easier and more fun to get from place to place. 

Sweet Tucker has arrived and loves to feel the wind on the spiral staircase going out to the garden. 

We have made a trip to Hyde Park and Kennington Gardens. The Peter Pan statue was beautiful. Loads of detail and so fun to see in person. 

We have also been enjoying way to many sweets, but hey that's what summer is for right! 😉. Finn has decided his favorites are large chocolate macaroons. It's hard not to indulge with bakery's on every corner. 

We have also meet some wonderful new friends from the states. They came over to help us celebrate Reese's 11th birthday!  

Jay and Finn have been introduced to Panini. They are having a great time collecting all the stickers to fill their books. Both of them are counting down the days till the start of the world cup this week. They are also having to call it football not soccer. 

We took a trip to the Natural History Museum and the kids really enjoyed it. We will be revisiting for sure. 

The architecture here is just amazing. 

We have explorded Covent Gardens. It is a wonderful place to walk through on sunny days. 

Finn really enjoyed the street performers. 

We found some great playgrounds to enjoy too. This one is in Regents Park. 

We decided we better work off some of that ice cream on the paddle boats on the lake too. We rented it for one hour and had a blast. Saw loads of ducks, and since it's spring we saw lots of babies ducks and swans which was super sweet too. 

We found another great climbing structure in Primrose Hill park too. 

The zoo is beautiful here and the kids really enjoyed having a friend to enjoy it with. 

Reese even managed to volunteer. However she didn't realize she was volunteering to dress up like a penguin. She was a cute one though!  Will write more about our adventure soon!! Big hugs from London. Xoxo