Happy Easter from the Hoodwards at the Tower of London & the giant bunny at the London Eye. Another great day finished off with a game of cricket and egg hunt in the Pommy-Hood's backyard (and delicious home-cooked roast and raspberry dessert!)
Happy Easter message at the foot off the London Eye (the giant ferris wheel built for the millenium).
Tower of London - better than any of the photos we could get of the outside.
We bought one audio tour and filtered interesting bits for the kids. They weren't very impressed initially... then we took them to the torture chamber...
Having survived the torture we went to the armourery. This is Henry VIII's gear.
The exhibition is really well designed. Just when you start to tire of looking at speccie displays they have a section where you can touch and play with weapons... Seamus thought that was pretty cool!
...and they've made a spectacular dragon out of armour, weapons and coins.
The boys pondering: Hmmm, I could keep Elena off my iPod with this. Hmmmm, did Henry use this one on Anne?
Tower bridge and weary kids in need of an icecream.
We tubed back to Westminster and joined the throngs of people heading toward the Abbey. We decided to skip circling the church, with all the mad Bill & Katie fans, and instead concentrated on Parliament. NB Big Ben in the background.
We were pleased to find Greg's favourite Roudin in a different location.
The Eye of London. Only an airship can provide a better view.
It takes half an hour to do a full turn.
It casts an impressive shadow.
A different view of Westminster (Elena is hiding Big Ben).
Nearing the top.
At the top. The pod below gives you an idea of the size of this thing! Each one weighs 10 tonnes (without the fat tourists inside). and it goes twice as fast as a tortoise sprinting! :P
Its held up with some serious cables (guarded by cute little bunnies).
It takes 40 min by train from Waterloo to Woking (home of the Pommy-Hoods). After a lovely stroll along the canal, as we walked from he station back to the Brewery (their house was an old brewery), the Ashes recommenced (interesting technique employed by both countries in this shot!).
The crowd drank, cheered on the players and threw slurrs at spectators from the opposing country of origin.
Then the easter hunt began - fortunately Grge's eye sight is so "rubbish" (as they'd say here) that he was quickly left behind.
At the end of another sunny, fun day in the mother country, Greg had to admit that England may have changed a little since he lived here 20 years ago and that its really pretty good :-) To prove his point he did some finger painting with the remnants of Louisa's delicious raspberry coulis!
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