A busy, but great day! Emma was out of school at 11:30 and we rushed (on the bike of course) to the train station. It took all of 7 minutes to get there, get the bike and trailer locked up and get in line for our ticket to "the city." We got on the fast train at 12:01. You don't want to get on any other! The fast train just stops once, maybe twice. The slow trains, are like the Greyhound Bus. They stop at every little nook and cranny on the way!
We met Harry & Cathy (Emma's great uncle & aunt) at Paddington Station. It had been a year since we saw them and Emma got a bit confused! She insisted that Harry was Cathy and Cathy was Harry. When I speak of them, I guess it's always as "one unit: Harry and Cathy." Not as individuals.
We ate lunch on the canal at a wonderful restaurant called the Boathouse. Lovely! We shared a nice bottle of wine and had salmon...what else! Fish here is just fresh and fabulous. Maybe I'm still paranoid about local fish in California since the oil spill! Anyway, it was wonderful! We finished it off with dessert: creme brulee. Well, Emma finished it off and I got a taste of it!
We walked around that section of London. We went into a beautiful garden......a tree was merely about $1,700 there! Emma attached to Cathy (the real one) and held her hand and had to stop and smell all different flowers, plants and leaves. Cathy is such a sport that she actually smelled them all!
We wandered along the canal back towards the station. Cath and I had some tea, which Emma of course spilled a bit of......she is her mother's daughter! Then, we found the Krispy Kreme. Yes indeed! It may have closed down in Santa Rosa, but it is up and running and FABULOUS at Paddington Station in London. I also found one in Oxford. Well, I found it online, and it will be one of my challenges for the week to actually find it, go in and not over indulge!
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