Monday found us on the train to London, off on a visit to E, O, M and F (recently moved and much missed 🙁 ) in their new house. After walking the length of the train looking for enough spare seats with at least one facing in the right direction (I have to face the engine!) we were rescued by some very kind people offering to shuffle about for us so that we could have two seat forward and one back, with a table in the middle 😀 Followed a few scuffles about who would sit by the window (sigh) which were solved by agreeing that the boys could change over halfway through the journey. Then L and K did lots of counting (using flashcards with fish pictures on) and J made a start on an English workbook (by reading all the way through the story and ignoring the writing exercises – ho hum!) while I inserted appropriate words of encouragement and praise and answered random questions about the passing scenery 
Negotiating the Underground was surprisingly easy (thank goodness for the Ergo and for travelcards which mean you don’t have to queue to buy tube tickets 😉 ) and we arrived in South Ealing with only a couple of delays.
It was lovely to see them all again, and to catch up on news while the children played. In the afternoon we even did some artwork (painting with lavender – inspired idea E 😀 ) and then suddenly realised quite how late it was, ended up staying for tea and walked back to the tube station with surprisingly little fuss from the boys and L sound asleep on my back within minutes.
Now we’ve done it once, we’re looking forward to doing it more often – and maybe getting in the occasional museum trip too. J would happily make the Science Museum his second home 😆
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We were in London today but only Docklands and Whitechapel. We go so often now that we hardly even think about it and the girls could probably do the underground themselves LOL! It’s lovely once you have done it a couple of times and feel confident. We also love the science museum- must organise a gathering again in September!
hurrah, hurrah!
and the great thing is that the children got on as well as us!!
Sounds lovely! We keep meaning to go in and do museums now we’re only 1.5 hrs away again. If you ever fancy a joint trip to the science museum or somewhere do shout, I think we must be on the same train line into London too.
A science museum meet sounds like a great idea 😀
I also found out recently that the Tate modern does lots of educational stuff – wonder if we could arrange a trip there with a workshop… I think they like groups of about 15 and it wouldn’t take many families to get that, if they can cope with mixed age-groups 😉
Been wondering about going to Tate Modern but I feel a bit intimidated going by myself, I can’t remember ever having been in an art gallery. Shocking eh?! LOL So yes, we’d be up for that.
Oh the Tate is cool. So much ‘crap’ stuff to look at but every so often a perfect gem. We like it there.
The Tate Modern – well, I liked it, Ernest left screaming that he hated this horrible place and was never coming back!
Would definitely be up for a Science Museum meet up in the autumn – in fact I wonder if with all the school trips there that the holidays would actually be a reasonable time to visit?