The Georgesters: Business Trip to London

Friday, June 6, 2014

Business Trip to London

Here's the last of the catch up posts. Ryan took a business trip to London a few weeks ago. We had known about this trip for a while but when it actually came time for him to go I was a little worried about having the baby early, or just not being able to manage the kids and being hugely pregnant all by myself. Everything worked out pretty well, though. My mom came and stayed with us for two days, and then we went down and stayed with her for two days. Playing with family kept us distracted and entertained. My dad made yummy shrimp for me to eat. We never have seafood at home because Ryan hates it. We spent most of our time just hanging out at the park or at my brother John's house in their new playroom. Here's Joseph entertaining the kids. They all thought Joseph was the best ever.

One of the days we were down in San Jose we went to Happy Hollow. The kids had so much fun going on the rides and seeing the animals at the zoo.

The park wasn't very busy so the kids got to ride the rides over and over again without getting off.

Paige thought she was awesome getting to ride this car all by herself.

Paige has been super in to babies lately, and her cousin Jonah is no exception. Despite the fact that he is about the same size as her, she kept trying to love him and hold him. He liked it for the most part so it was okay.

They had this roller coaster there, and Lucas has never been a fan of roller coasters and usually refuses to go on them, but for some reason he decided to give this one a try and it was mild enough that he liked it. He rode it 4 times in a row, because there was no one in line behind his group. Then we went back and rode it again later and he rode it another 4 times. I couldn't go on it with him so Joseph had to. Poor Joseph got a headache from riding it so much but Lucas thought it was a blast. Here's a video I took of our group on it. You can see how excited Lucas is. Don't be distracted by the person waving at the beginning, our group is in the first three cars - Lucas and Joseph are in the second car.

We spent the rest of our time at home, getting ready for Lucas's birthday and going to the park. We did alright, but the kids were definitely a little grumpy without their dad. Paige took a few days to realize that daddy wasn't just at work and coming home soon, once she did she was pretty clingy and sad. We made it through, though, and I told Ryan he's never allowed to travel again. :)

Ryan was mostly going to meetings the entire time he was in London, but he did get to go sightseeing the first two days he was there. He packed a lot into just two days.

He took the Tube everywhere he went.