Chelsea Flower Show

What an eventful week! Aunt Carin is visiting, and she and I went to the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show! It's held at the Royal Hospital Grounds, which is maybe a 10-minute walk from here. I could not believe the crowds! We got there late afternoon, and could barely move. It did seem to clear out half an hour after we arrived, luckily for us. Most of the show gardens are sort of like gardening as high art. They were way too subtle for me. I preferred the more commercial displays of colorful flowers.

Last weekend was a 3-day weekend, and some friends of ours from the States were in Liverpool for a wedding. Bernie and I left the kids with Aunt Carin and went to Liverpool to have dinner with them. It was nice to see another part of England other than Central London. I really should try to travel around the UK a bit more. We forgot to bring the camera, so no pics of Liverpool today.

Here are the kids this week:

Josephine has made up this new game where she takes both scooters and arranges them into a rectangle, then puts all her stuffed animals into it and sits there with them. She plays this for hours a day.


Here I am at the Chelsea Flower Show, blending with the Great Wall of Fuchsia.

This is a very impressive bansai wisteria at the flower show.


Running through the park

The Power Ranger in sparkly high heels


Bedtime


Pascale in undefined ethnic wear


Peacock at Holland Park


All of us in the lift



The girls' cousins sent cool pink Superman capes, which were just the thing to run around the park with.


Josephine at the park