London 2025

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Dec 9 Tues

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Dec 8

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Dec 7 Sun

Up at noon, out to Tusauds, over to Camden Market.  Home.  Was going to go to British Museum for the rosetta stone, skipped it for time.

alice: liked buying cardigan.  buying shirts.  Ed Sheeran was funny.  

Betty: loved buying fluffy scarf looks like fox.  

Michael: michael star was wax museum, not my droids joke.  

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Dec 6 Sat

With Jamie and Abby.  Went to the Science Museum.  Did all but 1st floor.  Showed up and 100 horses in derby carts went down the street in front of us.  Went to "honest burger" delicious.  Went to Harods, so expensive.  The toy section was crap.  Went to a book store later for the book with no pictures for Andrew Gipps "Halle" to read.

michael: harrods challenge.  cramped, over heated, hard to navigate. hanging out with Jamie/abby funy.

alice:the wind up mechanical things.  liked time with jamie abby.  Liked a book store with 6 levels.

betty:at honest burgers, the kids meal, the burger was delicious.  the oj glass was small, travel mug, paper straw.  crappy straw.

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Dec 5 Fri

 In Dublin, flew Dublin-London at 9pm.  Plane was 1hr late, arrived at airbnb at 11pm.  great Airbnb.  Weird girl sitting by Miranda on the flight.  

Went to the gardens in Dublin as something to do, nice to walk around.  Drove for the last time in Dublin.  Went to 'tesco superstore' and filled with diesel.   

went to the goose on the loose for breakfast.  good restaurant.  Richard ate blood pudding sausage.  Delicious.  

Tatoos, and vikings.

betty: at goose, betty got an american style pancake and ice crema and nutella, best papncake ever, oj glass was tall.  

alice: beating dad in chess, eating at goose, liked the rain after tesco, driving in circles around the airport.

michael: taking goose photos at the restaurant, vikings screamiung at us.

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Dec 4 Thurs

Ate at Quays a second time, they sat us at the same table and we sat in the same seats.  The waiter picked up a knife that Michael dropped.  

Wetn to an outdoor carnival, alice and betty went on the big swing that spins.

Went to the Dublin Musseum in Collins Barracks.

Left our Dublin Airbnb for the last time.  

michael: second time at quays, same seats.

alice: being on carnival ride, eating quays, the museum.

betty: quays burger was really delicious. when dad asked for oj, but they got her apple juice.

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Dec 3 Wed

Miranda graduated.  Got lucky and sent links for people to watch from london and canada.

late into the night graduation.  snacks afterwards and photos.

picked up graduation gown.  took photos.

up in the morning.  into downtown to go to the leprechaun museum, coffee at place with barista in pink hair.  Got there late.   They let us in anyways.  

An exciting time to be excited.

alice: seeing mom graduating was fun, story about selkies, the leprochaum story was amazing, hot chocolate was good.

betty: leprochaun museum, funnest ever went to, instructor was a girl named mauve with red hair.  good story teller.  climbed on a giant chair.  normal chair for a leprochaum. liked giant chess peices on the campus of the university.

michael: oral story telling thing, stories how rebecca tells stories.  liked that mauve, the guide, michael asked "could i climb on the chair" and she said, "wait", and after the idea, michael was the first one up. pastries that we got after mom graduated, those were good.

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Dec 2 Tues

Girls got ears peirced.  

fish and chips

ate at Quays for the first time, walked aorund the peirs, rainbow bridge.  

Dublin castle, walk shopping.  

betty: getting ears peicrced for the first time was hard.  it was weird.  looked like belletrix lestrange of harry potter.

michael: getting the newsies hat.  Using in and loving it all the time now.

alice: liked judging bridges.  liked tasting real fish and chips.  Liked getting second ears pierced. 

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Dec 1 Mon

flight to dublin.  Leave calgary 5pm, arrive in dublin 9pm.

almost didn't make it to flight, buses were late, got to airport 55 min before flight, long security, at the gate on on the plane 5 min after getting to gate.

lamborghini, 

V&A again today, another whole date at the V&A.

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Nov 30 Sun

V&A vor the first day.  

Halle, visit at Andrews, Windsor Castle, 

sideways house.  slanted house, guaards looking in manholes.

long walk, 

old trains at windsotr.

picked up by jamie, he liked me seeing him.

first time that we "drove" in london.  Before this was tubes and busses.

ate at polos chicken.

Michael: every time michael tried to engage with halle, girls followed suit.  

alice: halle, hopping around ring around the rossie. seeing the castle, learning about the castle.  Seeing how happy I was with Archie, holding the baby.

betty: liked the crooked house, at windsor castle.  Richard says "those stairs are great for burping", and michael saying "glad you got your burps out".

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Nov 29 Sat

breakfast at local go local, 

V&A for the second time.

betty: at go local, had pancakes that were spoungy.  Not enough syrope. 

alice: second v&a was better.  less churcy.

michael: started coding when we got back to the house.

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Nov 28 Fri

Arrive Friday 10am.  Stay up.  Go to Shrek maybe, and something else.

went to shreks, bad.

saw big ben for the first time.

went on the london eye.

had terrible fish and chips outside the london eye.

michael: shrek was terrible.  beyond terrible.  the london eye was cool.  i liked the london eye for that day.

alice: so tired after the eye that she was in a state of dream.  mad that we did all the tourist attractions the first day.  shreks for too much for kids.  london eye was too slow.  food place food was so fucking crappy.  

Betty: got chicken nuggets and chips.  two big chicken nugets.  didn't taste the best.  a bit sweet.  outside watery.  Used ketchup packets to make the chjps edibble.  At shreks adventure, super liked, in the flying red taxi bus thing.  and when sleeping beauty introduced herself, drury lane, and then went to sleep, and then started her speach over, and over, 3,4,5.

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Nov 27 Thurs

flight details:

michael putting blanket on face during sleep. 

alice: fun playing games, fun watching the tv.  exausting that couldn't get any sleep.  all tiring and boring.  really silly that betty forgot something.  really silly that michael forgot something..

betty: flight was exausting.  super tired, maybe got an hour of sleep.  the tv screen was nice, you could change brightness.  turn volume down.  games were a bit boring.  

michael:  me and mom doing pokemon go raid  in the airport.  

Fly, into the night, arrive tomrorow mornng at 10am.

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Alice

We are currently in London, which seemed like a dream to my no-hours-of-sleep brain the day when we first arrived. I learned that I can't function properly without at least 2-3 hours of sleep the hard way. We then saw the London Eye; the first 10-20 minutes were great, then it slowly downgraded for the rest of the trip. But the view was amazing, at the top it was a panoramic view. I would highly recommend to go on it once, but not too many times. We went to Shrek's Adventure. I didn't enjoy it that much, the whole thing is not recommended. It was fun, yes, but also really boring, and for 2-5 year olds.

Today we went to the V&A, which was absolutely amazing, I loved seeing how many spoons there was in that place. We then went to the London Dungeon at 4; major jump scares, but it was still one of the most fun things yet. I have had such a fun time so far, and am slowly working my way up to a British accent, I hope I can get a full one on our journey back. Then, in Dublin, I'll work for a Irish accent. My friend does a great one, I love it. He goes like, "That there's my son! The leprechaun on the pot of gold there, riding the rainbow!" And, "Your a lepreCHAUN(lep-re-chon)!"

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Michael

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Betty

Yesterday we went to a Shrek tour. Today we went to the London dungeon. 1 person from each talked to me about my hair. The Shrek: a witch lady "Look at your magical hair that changes color!" London dungeon: Sweeney Tod "Look at that hair. It would make a nice wig! I'll pray for you." That was fun!!!

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Richard

Flew out at 5pm Calgary time.  Landed 10am London time.  Most didn't sleep, but we stayed up all day to fight jet lag.  We went right to Shreks Adventure and london eye.  Fish and chips at the london eye, i complained and got a second patty.  Videos and photos at Big Ben.  H98 to Hounslow West, on the Picadilly Line to South Kensington, transfer to the Circle Line, down to Westminster, and walked across the river to and from the fun.

Second day we woke up really late, everyone was messed up.  We found a breakfast place further out of London.  Go Local Cafe.  "traditional breakfast".  Nobody but Richard and Miranda ate the "beans" which really is white beans in tomato soup...  The sausages were big , but not flavorful.  The "fried break" to me just seems like extra buttery bread.  Delicious.  Skipped "Natural museum" because it was alrealdy 1pm, we went down to the V&A and Michael lost his mind loving it.  Went to the "london dungeon" at 445, and then bought food along the road out at Hounseth wich was amazing food, ate in the hotel, and to sleep.  Michael tried to apply 

At the VA, there is a 1780s exhibit about balloons and the first travel by hot air baloon.  The brothers that took the first air balloon trips had the last name.... gonfler, or something like that.  "blow up" in french.  That made me laugh.  Montgolfier brothers.  But I prefer to remember them as the gonfler brothers.

Links to the photos so far.....

2025, London England

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