Slow start
today as all the food and beverages of yesterday had taken their toll. Roni was
up with the squirrels and Lara for a morning latte before baking us all croissants
from a can again – love those things! Games of Citadels were had with
Brayden before we munched on leftovers for lunch and looked at photos from
yesterday.
Then it was
time for Lara to leave – sigh. Roni caught her first Tube with her and together
they walked past St Pancras, Ghandi’s statue and registered at the Con Tiki
office. After navigating the labrynthian (and not well signposted) corridors of
the hotel we found her room and deposited her stuff.
Farewells on
the street after this before Roni headed back to Clapham. On arrival we two and Clare packed all the leftovers
and pjs for a night in Tooting! Woohoo!
Clare was
looking after a friend’s place and we were going for a sleepover. After a tube
and wander we arrived and settled in for the evening. There was an unfortunate
mishap with the first batch of mulled cider during the ‘mulling’ process...this
event left it totally undrinkable and as we were keen for another ‘hug in a mug’
Roni and Clare set out in search of replacement cider.
We had
success on our little mission and on the way home Roni had a MOST exciting
moment. There are many foxes in the UK and everyone has seen one and tells us
all about them but we had still never seen one on all our journeying. On the
way home from Tesco in Tooting...she saw
one!! They move so slinkily! Like a shadow or a puff of smoke. This fox was
in fine condition too – not a mangy inner city fox at all. Even Clare vouched
for not only the sighting but the stellar quality of the fox... Happy Roni!!
While the
girls were away Bray had the chance to call some family in NZ with Clare’s
remaining free minutes so he had an exciting time too. Called Aunty Rena only
to have the phone answered by ‘some guy’. After some questioning he worked out
that it was Kacey, his best-friend-cousin who he thought was in Australia!
Awesome to speak with him even for a wee bit, Bray got good news about the
family Christmas celebrations and really appreciated the chance to catch up
with whanau.
Once the
girls got back and fox & family news was shared we mulled the new cider
(with no problems) and then got to watch Home
Alone – it is a family tradition for
Clare at Christmas but we hadn’t managed to get hold of the DVD but...it was on
TV! Yay!
Bray
eventually went to bed while the girls stayed up watching The Godfather as Roni had never seen it. She still missed the last
15mins or so as it didn’t finish until around 4am! Argh. We have the film ourselves
though so she can fill in the gaps at a later date.
