We went to the City of London museum today.  My most favorite yet!!!!  Lots of interactive exhibits, touch screens, costumes to put on, great short films about the plague and the great fire.  They had this fantastic ticker in the lobby with tons of cold hard facts about London = over 63,000,000 tube riders per year.  London airports supply almost 10% of the CO2 emissions for the city.  Over 817,000 patrons saw something at the National Theatre last year. Wow.  So nice to see a museum about how the people lived, made their money and died in this city, rather than more armor and frippery from Kings and Queens.

Hard to drag ourselves away but we had to meet Blake for tea at 4:45. Had a nice high tea at a pastry shop Richoux, right around the corner from the American Embassy.  Just our speed and recommended by the Irish doorman at the hotel who has seen the boys for the last week and a half.  Diving into tea at the Dorchester with a 5 and 10 year old who don’t have much fine dining experience was too tall of an order.  Visions of smeared chocolate and fine crystal flying through the air flooded my taxed brain.  So we settled for pastry at Richoux. Luscious decadent clotted cream. 

Looking at the TV this am and the earthquake in Japan reminds me that the last time we were here was the devastating tsunami in Indonesia.  I’m glad that Jessica and her family don’t live there anymore. However, I’m sure she is concerned about her friends. 

Then Blake went off to see a play called MOGADISHU in Hammersmith.  10 pounds.  Nice price!