London

My husband has been working on a project in London recently. Michael struggles with his absence and worries that he won’t come home. Even though he has been adopted for some time now, he still finds it hard to believe that “we will love him forever”. Often children who have been through the care system have these issues. It’s heart breaking! So we decided to take a trip down to London to see where Daddy was working, stay in his hotel and visit a few museums. It was brilliant!

We got up at 4:30am to catch the train. The boys were so excited! Michael tells everyone “we got up in the middle of the night and had breakfast on the train...in the night!!!” I love the way children see things.

We dropped our luggage at the hotel and then walked to where my husband was working. He builds television studios. Michael loved being able to have a good look and asked lots of questions. He loves to know how things work and why.

We then jumped on the tube (thank goodness for baby carriers!) and spent the whole day in the Science Museum! We had planned to visit a couple of museums that day but the boys both loved the Science Museum so much that we spent 7 hours there!  As I said before, Michael loves to know how things work and why so this museum ticked that box beautifully.  Steven particularly enjoyed the sensory garden as there was water play and things to bang!

We got the chance to sneak into a bubble show that was being run for a special school. Michael charmed the teachers into letting us in too. It was excellent.

We stayed one night. The second day was spent at the National History Museum and British Museum. The British Museum was a little too “do not touch” for my boys so we ended up chasing pigeons at the park instead.

The National History Museum however was great! We've been before, but that didn't seem to matter. Michael hired one of their explorer packs. It’s a backpack with clues inside (and cool binoculars and hat!), you have to work out what creature the clues are from and find it from somewhere within the museum. Michael had the “long-horned cowfish”.

It was a wonderful trip. It helped to ease Michael’s fear about whether Daddy was coming home, and gave us lots of learning opportunities. It was also a good opportunity for him to do a bit of train spotting; his favourite subject!!!