Our European Adventure

Tuesday morning we woke late, thanks to the complete darkness and silence of our room mixed with our own exhaustion. We dragged ourselves out to cruise around Kensington gardens and Hyde Park. The walk was really nice and weather delightful. Everything was going along splendidly until the crowd of squirrels attacked! ARGH! Okay, there were only 3, and they didn’t really attack, just walked over to us and followed us around a bit, but for me that was scary enough! Saphira of course wanted to pick one up and bring it home as a pet. Wouldn’t that be lovely?

We love-love-LOVED the hundreds of Autumn trees and the thousands of brown, red, orange and yellow leaves gently falling from the sky and carpeting the grass. A big even was when we saw actual Holly! Not the girl, the plant! Well it’s more of a bush really. But the instantly recognisable red berries and pointy dark green leaves sent us all squealing and giggling! Okay, so it’s the first non-plastic holly we’d ever seen, but it really did not require such exuberant exclamations. I think we were just excited to remind ourselves, “We’re in England!” Although after the fifth or sixth time I said that, Saphira politely requested that I shut up.