Happy Halloween!

Just popping by to wish you all a very Happy Halloween!

So fancy in my shiny witchy hat 😀

Three days in London

After no more than two days home from the summer holiday we were off again! We were following parts of The Boy’s travel route from two years ago, first to London, then Salisbury and Glastonbury, before going back to London to catch the plane home.

Hedgie wanted to come along since he comes from Glastonbury and wanted to show us where he grew up 🙂 Then Red-Nose wanted to keep Hedgie company, so she tagged along too. Here we are all on the plane, super excited to see a little more of the world:

Our hotel was quite cool. A nice little place with a tiny breakfast hall in the basement. We also got the only room in the basement, so we didn’t have to walk far for breakfast 🙂

Ready to hit the streets of London!

After unpacking a bit, we had dinner at a Chinese restaurant, where the waiter said I was cute 😀 Lots of tips for him!

Since the plain to London was almost two hours late, we didn’t have time for all the things we’d planned on Monday. We wanted to visit the Tower of London, but this is as close as I got:

This was the start of a Ripper walk we did, where we were guided around following in the footsteps of Jack the Ripper. At the end of the walk we rested our feet at The Ten Bells, one of the pubs where Jack probably picked up at least one of his victims. Creepy!

Supposedly these tiles are the originals from a hundred years ago…

Tuesday we were up early and walked through Hyde Park on our way to the museums. I said hello to a swan family, some ducks and a coot. They were so cute!

I went to the Natural History Museum with The Girl, while The Boy went off to do his thing (a David Bowie exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Hall right next door). We’d planned to finish somewhat early and do something else after, but somehow we managed to spend all day in these places. Seven hours looking at dinosaurs and creepy crawlies! Best day ever 😀

Me and Dippy!

Teeth!

And guess what… I’ve actually met Kraken! How cool is that 😀 You know, the huge giant squid in the basement of the museum, in a great big glass tank full of alcohol. So awesome 🙂 Here she is, all 8.6 meters of squiddiness:

The Kraken and I 🙂

Wednesday was a bit of a slow day, because we were pretty tired from the two days before. First we visited Museum of London, where we looked at Stone Age and Ancient Roman stuff from the area around London. Pretty cool 🙂 You could try living in a really old house, or try on some fancy old clothes:

And for some reason there was a Dalek:

Next up was British Museum, but since it was a hot day, we needed a little ice cream break before we went in:

We were so tired that we didn’t even get halfway through the museum. We just looked at most of the Ancient Egyptian stuff, and a bit of Assyrian.

The Rosetta stone!

Assyrian sphinx. Awesome 🙂

Then we headed for the gift shop and almost didn’t buy anything, and left the museum. Exhausting!

This was our last day in London, so now it was finally time to relax. After the museums we wandered around Soho for a few hours, rested for a while at a Starbucks and stopped by the biggest bookstore you could imagine (where The Girl went mad and bought a ton of bug books, woo!), before we finally stopped to have dinner at a very fancy Lebanese restaurant. Turned out we should have reserved a table, because the table we got was tiny, and apparently someone was hungry…

I’ve never seen so much food on one table! But can you believe they finished almost all of it? We were practically rolling back to the hotel 😛

So now we’ve packed and are ready for bed, we’ve got to get up early to catch the train to Salisbury tomorrow morning. Can’t wait!

Celebrating Lucia

Christmas is right around the corner, and tonight my family and I celebrated St. Lucia. Usually one makes weirdly shaped saffron buns with raisins (which are very very tasty), but this year we didn’t have time for baking…

We did have time to dress up, with real candles and everything! It was a little bit scary at first, but The Girl had it all under control, and the candles were only lit for a few seconds while photos were taken. The boys are still wearing their fancy hats 🙂

Hope you’ve all had a wonderful day, whatever you may celebrate, and hope you find some time to relax in the middle of Christmas shopping and decorating 🙂

Come rain or shine…

This weekend I came along to visit The Girl’s grandmother, and I’d been looking forward to roaming around in her very big garden. So many yummy bugs! Unfortunately it started to rain on Friday afternoon, and it was either raining, windy or wet all weekend. It’s not easy being a little Boll, I don’t like to get my bum wet!

Glyptodon also came with us, but he took one look at the weather and stayed in! But I was determined to go outside and help out a little with the gardening, so I made the people dig up an old rain hat from the bottom of some closet. It’s way too big for me, of course, but at least it keeps me nice and dry 🙂

On Sunday afternoon, just before we left, the sun came out for a few minutes. I was very quick to run outside, but the ground was still wet, so I had to jump from plant to plant like a little Tarzan hedgie 🙂

We are going back there today, and the sun is still shining, so I’m hoping for a lot more garden fun in the week to come 🙂 Keep watching, there may be more cuteness coming up soon 😀