Sunday 24th to Wed 27th

Sunday we spent the day with our friends from Mill Park. We rode the buses most of the day. Twenty six pounds and it gave us 6 different bus routes to do. Just hop on and off where you want.
We did the blue one first, stopped had something to drink, onto the red route and that took ages then off again at Trafalgar Square to have another drink and thent he yellow route but we got on the wrong side of the road and ended up doing the whole thing and we didn't get off the bus until after 6pm. The weather had been great for the open top bus. It was also very busy being Easter and the coming royal wedding. We went out for dinner and finally got home at 9.10
Monday we looked after Mackenzie so that Katherine and Dave could do some shopping and mum and John also had an easy morning planned. We all went down to Wimbledon park with Mackenzie and it was very busy. She of course loved it.
Mum and John left at 2pm to go to their hotel for the night as their tour of England, Scotland and Ireland left on the Tues morning.
Matt and Jana and Stew came for dinner that night.

Tuesday saw us packing up and leaving the house. We left at 10am to go to Kingston to pick up our rental car and Katherine and co left around 10.30 to go to Stew's new house (which was Matt's old house). They stayed there for the next 2 nights until they flew out on Thursday. (they have arrived home and are now having to adjust.)

Tuesday we headed out without Jane's help and found Brookland race track and the Mercede Benz museum. We only went into the Brooklands museum which had old cars, racing cars and some of the old track. Also planes. It was quite good.
We then got out Jane (our gps) and found out we hadn't even got past Heathrow.
We travelled to Bath and found our accommodation. We had been last time but we felt we hadn't done it justice. We had two nights here. We were a bit disappointed with our accomodation. The size of the ensuite was no bigger than a wardrobe and adjusting the water was interesting.
On Wednesday we went to the American museum. It is the only wholly American museum outside of the US.
I was mainly there to see the quilts. They were great but of course we weren't allowed to take pictures and the book was very heavy so didn't buy it.
We found a Chinese buffet for dinner which was nice and when we got back someone had turned on the heater and our room was like a furnace. Glad to leave to the next morning.