Having frozen various body parts off recently, I was completely bonkas to plan any outdoor 
activities this easter. But with a must-do list and an ever decreasing number of weekends, I couldn't let it go to waste.Anna and Mike had hired a car, so on friday we all piled in and went on an outing - to Ikea! It's a day out in itself... And it was so liberating being in a car - we even resisted swedish meatballs so we could go through the McDonald's drive thru!
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n saturday I went into the city, kind of across the road from Downing St - to one of the Royal Palaces, Banqueting House. It was where King Charles I was hung in the 1600's. It wasn't terribly exciting, just 2 long rooms (for 
banquets!) with very little in them. Although the ceiling paintings by Rubens were pretty amazing. From there I took the tube to London Bridge where I hoped to look inside City Hall (awesome spiral staircase and excellent views of London apparently), but it was closed. It was there that I took this pic of Tower Bridge, and it snowed for 52 seconds, 20 minutes later...
n saturday I went into the city, kind of across the road from Downing St - to one of the Royal Palaces, Banqueting House. It was where King Charles I was hung in the 1600's. It wasn't terribly exciting, just 2 long rooms (for 
banquets!) with very little in them. Although the ceiling paintings by Rubens were pretty amazing. From there I took the tube to London Bridge where I hoped to look inside City Hall (awesome spiral staircase and excellent views of London apparently), but it was closed. It was there that I took this pic of Tower Bridge, and it snowed for 52 seconds, 20 minutes later...On sunday I went to Kew Gardens, hoping it would snow alot more, but it didn't it was just cold and windy (it only got to 3 that day). Many of the spring flowers were out and I tried to enjoy them but I spent most of the time in the 3 atriums just to keep warm. I got homesick in the Australasian section looking at wattle (my favourit-est plant), and I saw an amazing plant that was bright purple in the centre which graded out to green, and a small white magnolia tree. Kew Palace is also in the Gardens, so I went inside for a look. It was quite amazing - they'd left some of the walls exposed so you could see how it was built, (also) in the1600's.
On monday we met some friends at our local pub, The Swan, and had a great afternoon eating sausages and mash, drinking wine and chatting.
Oh, and the easter bunny had noticed I'd moved, cos he found me...
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