Meeting up with Ken in London

We woke up early on Easter Friday as we had planned to go into London and meet up with Jean & Ken and the girls. Guy dropped us off at the train station in Luton and we caught the train up to London, we planned to go to St. Paul's as Em had seen it in "Mary Poppins" and wanted to feed the birds, however she enjoys chasing them more than feeding them.

We got off somewhere close to St. Paul's and then took the tube to St. Paul's, by this time D and I were dying for a coffee so we went off to Nero's and while we were sitting there Ken phoned to say they were standing outside of St. Paul's. Off we went to meet them, it was so strange that although we had not seen them in 2 years it did not feel that long and they all still looked the same as we remembered them 2 years ago.

Em was in her element as she had some friends for a change. We went into St. Paul's not realising that they were having Easter service and prayers and of course there was no sight seeing, Em can not read so ignored the huge sign saying "SILENCE" until about 10 people in unison said ssshhh....

So from there we left and went to the Pizza place across the road for lunch, it was so great catching up with all the news and it was great just seeing them on their own for a change. After a really nice lunch, Jean had planned to go to the Museum of Natural History and of course Em would want to go with, so we all trekked off there.

I am so glad we went because it was really interesting, bar the fact that there must have been about 10,000 other people there, I will have to go over and meet Jean and go on a quiet day. I would love to see Tutankhamen's treasures and all the other exhibitions they have it was really really worthwhile.

We left at about 4:00 and headed back to the station to get the train back to Luton, we managed to get the express train so got back really quickly, Guy picked us up from the station and we all went home.

Em was in her element as Guy had made the most delicious Spaghetti Bolognaise this side of Italy. We drank and chatted and eventually went to bed round midnight.