The summer has finally come to a close. Due to the late year that we had in the British school program and the early return with U.S. schools, the children only had less than 2 months off from school. We were busy with church activities and trips here and there trying to cram as much in as possible before summer was over. We went to Sandringham, which is the winter residence of the Queen. They have quite a collection of things that are very important and that was only in the rooms that we saw. We saw a gun made out of gold and a clock collection. The kids loved the intrciate details of the clocks and their riveting description of their inner workings, including but not limited to precision movements and odd little snippets that kept the kids firmly attentive. Okay, I think you can tell that I was kidding but it was interesting
We finished our summer with a combined birthday party for Evan and Katy. They both turned 6 and 4 respectively on the "same day." And if you tell them that they didn't, I will hunt you down. They had a great time at Legoland, except for Katy on the last roller coaster ride where she white-knuckled it throughout. We're not bad parents, we just pretend like ones when we go to amusement parks.
True to form in England, we had a one and a half hour rainstorm. We thought about leaving but none of the locals did. We ended up having a great day and doing all of the rides that we wanted to. All of the children got wet, Evan had a gluten free sandwich of his choice and Katy wanted to eat in a castle but it closed so we had bbq instead. She still felt special.We have a massive statue here made entirely out of legos. This was one of our more favorite rides where you ride in a jeep and get to shoot targets during the entire ride. Katy and Evan both had fun shooting and scored some hits.
