Where the Wild Things Are
Saturday, June 18th
The weather today was HOT.
Keaton wanted to go to Legoland, but Grandma Cathy wanted to go on a river cruise. Grandma won. We spent our Saturday morning on a cruise on River Thames. We saw a lot of the sites we’ve already seen, but we were finally able to get a good look at Shakespeare’s Globe [at least from the outside]. And we snapped lots of pictures along the river.
After our cruise we went to the London Zoo. It was really hot out. At the beginning of the week I was freezing and then today I was sweating just sitting around doing nothing. Crazy London weather.
Grandma Cathy’s been to the zoo before so she found a nice shaded bench and read her book while Keaton and I walked through the Zoo. You really should allow all day for this zoo. It’s huge and Keaton and I didn’t get a chance to see everything before it was closing for the day. We spent too much time looking at the snakes, lizards and turtles in the Reptile House. We didn’t have time to go in to the aquarium or find the elephants. But I refused to leave before we saw the giraffes. And when we got to the giraffe house they had just fed them so we got see them up close and personal. It was awesome.
The London Zoo is pretty famous. It’s been in a few movies and inspired some writers. Of most interest to Keaton was the fact that one of the Harry Potter movies was filmed her. Of most interest to me was that this zoo inspired the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh.
After they kicked us out of the zoo [ok, not kicked, but they did holler over the loud speaker that the zoo was closing], we hauled our sweaty bodies back to the hotel. On the way to the tube we walked down Baker Street and we saw the Sherlock Holmes Museum. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson lived at 221b Baker Street between 1881-1904, according to the stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The house was last used as a lodging house in 1936 and the famous 1st floor study overlooking Baker Street is still faithfully maintained as it was kept in Victorian Times.
That night we met mom’s friend Sam for drinks in the hotel bar. We were pretty exhausted from the non-stop activity the last week and the thought of the marathon packing we had to do that night, so we decided to eat in the bar too [just so you know, the bar was attached to the restaurant and kids were allowed in there too...so we didn't make Keaton starve, he was with us]. Sam was very nice. I don’t know how old he is, but he looked pretty young. Apparently mom hired him at Agency.com right out of college. It was fun talking to him. And it was fun meeting all of mom’s friends. But I was ready to go home and hug my family again.
