Dino Zoo and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday last week

Okkk......so Dino Zoo.

We headed back to Regent's Park to watch the Dino Show. Man, I'm so glad I went. It was a bunch of Aussies and they came out explaining where Aussie is and its at the bottom, underneath etc, and then they said they would be showing Dinosaurs from the Southern Hemisphere. Sweet.

The first Dino's they brought out were from NZ...so me, in back back, put my arms in the air and go "woo!". They had a whole bunch of kids on the stage and were just making them do stuff and it was really funny and really well done. The narrator mentioned NZ again and I didn't do anything, but then she said "....that was your cue" and so I went "woooo" again.

I has such a fun time! They wanted more volunteers, and I put my hand up, but obviously wasn't picked. Jake really enjoyed it too which was awesome, cos we were a little worried about him being scared....but complete opposite!

 

 I spent the afternoon wandering around town again, I had to go to PaperChase and get some stuff, so then I came home and used the stuff for the Scrapbook that I'm making. 

I wanted to go and have a look around Covent Garden but there was a massive fire and heaps of fire trucks and it had all been evacuated etc. WTFFF. I googled when I got home, turns out Jamie Oliver's restaurant there caught fire or something....weird....

The fire engines

That evening, I went north a little to meet one of Mum's teacher Friends from St Pats for a pub roast. They were the first people I had seen from home so it was cool to talk to them about all the weird English stuff and sort out a few things in my head - and get a few more ideas!!

Monday rolled around, and it was Jake's first day at his new school!! I got the morning off while Ant and Emma took him to school (which is literally, a 5 minute walk from the house, its awesome). Once I got going, I headed up to Hampstead - walking - to get a few things. It was suuuch a nice sunny day! I wandered around there for a bit. Its quite a nice area with some really nice shops! So I did a bit of dreaming while wandering around the main street. 

I came back here for a bit before I caught a bus out to Primrose Hill. I had heard a lot about how nice it was and I'd Wikipedia'd it a bit and wanted to go have a poke around. So I just got off the bus and just wandered around for a while. I'd find a street I liked the look of and just wander up there. I was wandering for like 2 hours, and found some cute little places. I ended up the top of Primrose Hill in the park and took some photos so that was lovely. I managed to find my way back to the house, walking so huzzah! 

 Jake had his first handwriting lesson that day too, so he came home exhausted around 5.30 and I had made him dinner, so he literally went to bed straight after that. 

Tuesday, I hung out here in the morning and theeeeeen I went to the One Direction Movie! It was so cool, I loved it and really glad I went. But after that I pretty much had to go get Jake and then hang out with him until bed. 

Wednesday was Jewish New Year, so I had to get Jake to school and then the day off! So I headed into Londontown to meet Ingrid! She's a great mate from home and had just spent 6 weeks Nannying in Italy and France! It was suuuper cool to see her. We went to Hyde Park and had some food at the cafe, before finding out that Matilda does 5quid tickets for 18-25yr olds! So we headed up to the theatre to find out if any tickets were available. Man, it was a decent walk up there! We did a bit of shopping and stuff on the way which was cool. We got to the theatre, and they had sold out, not a surprise considering we got there at like 3. Bummed. But we decided to go and see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory....We got to that theatre and tickets were only 25pound for quite a decent seat. We decided to go to that. 

Ingrid then had a job interview back on Oxford St, so we walked back down there (more walking!) and had dinner at Marks and Spencers opposite Selfridges. Ingrid went to her interview and I poked around for a bit, which was fun. We tubed it back up to the theatre and got to our seats JUST in time!

It was such a COOOOL show! The kids were pretty neat and the sets were Brilllllliant! Ingrid was pretty much in love with the Willy Wonka haha, and he was amazing. Its one of those shows that you just can't really explain without gestures and facial expressions and dance moves. I will happily recreate it for all of you haha. 

You're probably over reading by now, so I'll write some more tomorrow and hopefully will be a bit more caught up!

Charlette xx