Day 3 in our Capital City

After another lovely full English breakfast we set off for our stroll across Waterloo Bridge to board the boat at Embankment. Samuel was so excited about going on a boat trip along the Thames and loved sitting outside, unfortunately his sister wasnt so keen and spent most of the trip inside. We arrived at Tower Bridge in record time ready for our visit to the Tower of London.

As advised by Nanny first stop was the crown jewels and we walked straight in and got to see them with no crowds which was fantastic, it was amazing to see these wonderful jewels. We then headed off to the White Tower which had all the armour, horses, etc and we were in here for ages as the children loved looking at all the exhibits. When we came out there was a 2hr que for the jewels... thank goodness we went early. We spent the rest of the time exploring the grounds and walking the tower walls.

It was then off to meet Daddy for a surprised lunch at Pizza Express, the little people were so excited to see him (and so was I), it was just a shame he had to go back to work.

After a lovely long lunch we headed over to Oxford Street for some retail therapy, first stop was to get Daisy's brownies uniform, then it was the new Disney Stop, Gap for new fleeces for the little people and finally window shopping at Selfridges for mummy.

We were all shattered by this point and went back to our hotel for a much deserved rest before our big adventure of the evening - The London Eye. Daisy has been wanting to go on the eye for ages but Samuel wasnt so keen! By the time we got there Samuel had decided he wanted to go on so all we went and who was the one that wasnt keen when it was going round... Daisy! Samuel loved it and wanted to go again. The views were fantastic and it was a great thing to do with them, we finished off a great day with dinner over looking the Big Ben and the Thames.