London Town

London was so much fun.
     We arrived at Euston station on Tuesday afternoon, and went directly to the British Library, which is genuinely awesome. It gives me the massive urge to learn ancient Hebrew and Latin.
In the evening we went to Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square just to chill, and ate at Chipotle for the first time, which is a bit odd to do in England. We stayed at a youth hostel all together which was actually really fun. All seven of us staying in one room together is never uninteresting...

This beautiful police box was a block from our hostel.
Someone has scratched into the dust on the side "Bad Wolf". Win.

    On Wednesday we all went to the Natural History Museum, which was really cool! They have all kinds of crazy amazing stuff. We went next to the Victoria and Albert museum and looked through the ball gowns exhibit which was looovvely. They had an Alexander McQueen dress, shoes and purse. Too amazing.
In the afternoon we went to look around Harrod's, which was just soo crazy. So huge! So expensive! Ahh! Two of my favourite things about that trip - finding a pure amethyst dining room table which was 159,000 pounds, and overhearing a besuited man on the Egyptian escalator telling his wife "In my personal opinion, Tiffany's is just everyday junk." Wow. Such a different world :-) At Harrod's, I actually got to HOLD an Alexander McQueen purse - Ah! Fantastic moment.

(This McQueen purse) 

After Harrod's we rushed to Westminster Abbey for evening prayer. The service was very solemn, and very beautiful.

Us outside of the Natural History Museum

They had a dik-dik at the museum!! Ahh! I want one so badly!

The Peter Pan Statue at Kensington Gardens

    On Thursday we decided to split up, so while my parents were touring the Houses of Parliament, the rest of us kids were searching London for her unique, subcultural districts. We went to Brick Lane, where we found thousands of vintage shops and the best coffee we've had in England. It was so yummy. Then, with hardly any time to spare, we found our way to Camden Market, the home of punk. It was all I ever dreamed it to be, although we only got to dash in and out again. Intricate little streets full of people trying to sell you trousers and corsets and jewellery and literally anything you can think of. I so wanted to stop at every shop and stall to examine all of their wares, but unfortunately we had to run past most of them, just longingly glancing through the best of them.
   We all met back up in Kensington Gardens, so we could read the end of Peter Pan (which we had been reading altogether as a family) under the statue there in the Gardens. It was such a perfect end to the wee holiday.

Hope you're having a lovely week!

Holiday!

          We're finally going on Holiday! Not that we haven't been on holiday for about 2 weeks... but we're finally going away! 

  We'll be staying in London for 2 nights. Fun times.

Yesterday we went to Stratford-Upon-Avon, and ended up seeing Much Ado About Nothing by the Royal Shakespeare Company! It was set in modern day India, and it was so wonderful. It was so beautifully set, and the acting was fantastic. It even had some actors in it that we recognised from episodes of Doctor Who.

Time to go to London! Adieu!

The Measham Car Boot Sale

Salut!

            So, my parents have been going to this same car boot sale nearly every Sunday for ages now, and I was finally able to make it this week... Oh my. I didn't expect to find much, but now I understand how my mum always comes home with her arms full. This is what I got (don't laugh, I know some of it is random and ridiculous) 

This copy of Shakespeare's Tragedies - 20 pence. 

These adorable antique spoons and fork,  50 pence each.

I thought it was kind of funny how this worked out...

This duck... 25 pence.

Three pieces of dollhouse furniture - I just couldn't help myself! I nearly bought the dollhouse too!
50 pence each.

This lovely copy of The Swiss Family Robinson, from the version of the classics I am collecting, 1pound.

This dress! I am in love with it. It looks much better in person. 1pound.

This ring. 1pound

These adorable shoes, which are exactly what I've been looking for and were only 50pence!!

This adorable vintage Brownie's mug! I am so in love. Only 50 pence :-)

So now I don't know how I am going to stay away from the boot sale... although really, I only spent 7 pounds 45, even though I felt like I was spending thousands. Yay! 

here. now.

         Wow.

I've been home for a while now, haven't I? DTS feels like a distant memory... sad. I do miss it.

   So, I've decided that this isn't the best place to write loads about our trip to Shanghai, so if you want to know more about what happened, please inbox me and I will happily tell you all about it :-)

Life has been crazy.

   All of last week I joined in the King's Lodge olympic outreach to Coventry, where we helped to run  a holiday club (VBS) for about 85 kids. I got to help with the four and five year olds, which was soo fun. It was so great to have the opportunity to help the local church reaching out to it's own community, and to be able to pray over these wonderful little ones all week, and teach them simple truths about Jesus and life :-)

At the end of the week, my big sister Anna came back from Newcastle, and then on Monday, my other big sister, (the only missing Joyce at that point) Kaeli, flew in from Spokane! Yaaaay!

     On Saturday (before Kaeli came) we got to "attend" the wedding of my very first cousin! We actually only got to watch a live stream of it, but it was more than we had expected, so it was great. 

Ahhhh! I can't believe Hillary is married! Congratulations!

The Family (minus Alex) watching Hil's wedding

   
 It was harder than I expected to see my whole family there, and to realise how much I have missed over the past six years. All of my little cousins are no longer little. Oh dear. There were tears.

We have been house-sitting for some friends of friends in the next town over from the Lodge, so it's been nice to spend some time away from home and spends lots of time with the family (and Phil of course (=  )

Today we got the crazy and unexpected opportunity to go see the Olympic Bronze medal game of Women's Football (soccer), between France and Canada. It was so fun, none of us ever thought we would get the chance to attend any of the events.

    These next two weeks are holiday time with the whole family here :-) So nice. It has been 2 years since we've all been together! Not okay.
    What comes next after these weeks are over?





Only God knows.