London Family Pictures

I have always wanted to do family pictures in the cities where we’ve spent the summers, but I’ve never done it.  About a month before our trip I stumbled on the blog Love and London.  She offered vacation photo shoots at famous London landmarks and I jumped at the chance.  The day we were supposed…

The Cotswolds

Or what will hereafter be known as the Day of the Bathrooms.” More to come on that soon…. We took the Overground and rented a car in Hammersmith. It was quite the ordeal and it took us a lot longer to get on the road than expected. And it was our first time driving on…

Tate Modern and England World Cup!

We decided to wait until the late afternoon to venture out.  We are tired of  battling the heat (I feel like I say that everyday!) and since the Tate was open late tonight, it was nice to go out after the peak heat of the day.  We hoped to be able to catch the end…

Friday Favorites

It’s hard to believe we are winding down our time in London.  Only a few days left!  We wanted to go do all our favorite things one last time.  So we set out on Friday to make that happen. The day did not get off to a great start.  We arrived at Victoria Station and…

Notting Hill by Date Night

This was, without a doubt, the best London date night.  Dinner was at Dishoom, which is the restaurant I wanted to come to for Rusty’s bday the first night we were in London.  The line was too long then, and too long when we tried to come back a few weeks later before Bat out…

Notting Hill by Day

It was a bit overcast today which meant a break from the direct sun, but the humidity was intense!  Go away heat wave!  We set out to explore Portobello Market and Notting Hill today.  Thank you bloggers who have done all the work in planning exactly where to go to see all the cute houses. …

World Cup–England Wins!

After our long day out in the sun the kids were begging for some down time.  Rusty and I left them at the apartment to rest and relax and he and I hopped on a tube to Camden Market for a morning date.  Rusty didn’t go with us last time so he was excited to try…

Sunday rest day

We are officially BEAT.  So, after church we broke with our usually Sunday park tradition and came home and had a nap.  We had originally planned to go to the park around 6 as it started to cool down a bit.  But when the time came, no one really wanted to go.  We stayed home…

Brighton Beach

We needed a break from the city heat so we booked tickets on the Monday morning train to Brighton! It was a quick one hour ride and in no time we were dipping our feet into the freezing cold English Channel. It felt heavenly! (After your body went numb) The beach was rocky! No sand…