Loose Tooth, Platform 9 3/4, Windsor Castle & Grocery Shopping (2 May)
Today Chayton lost his tooth! It’s been really wiggly for the last few days, but hanging on. Chayton is quite keen to use his new travel tooth pillow that Auntie Alisa made with him.
After all that excitement passed it was time to head into town. First up – heading back to Kings Cross to see Platform 9 3/4. What fun! The guides there did a nice job, too. Talking with everyone, handing out the correct House scarf for you to wear, and helping out with a bit of magic to make it look like you were “running” into Platform 9 3/4 (that is flipping up your scarf for your photo).
As a weekend palace, Windsor Castle is pretty amazing. The girls swore that the queen was in residence because the correct flag was flying. I’m not totally sure it was, but we did peek through the gates to the Royal Family’s quarters. At one point i even saw two men hanging out on one of the balconies … wonder who?
The girls and I got to see the guards marching past us and through the Royal Family’s private area. Then by chance (when we went to collect Chayton and Courtney from the public toilet) the guards marched past us again! Chayton thought they were pretty cool. I have to say, seeing them marching with modern machine guns in a traditional old-style uniform is a bit of juxtapositioning.
On our walk back through town to get to the train station, we stopped at an old-fashioned candy shop. The children all got to pick out a couple of pieces of candy for our “Tooth Party” to celebrate Chayton loosing his tooth. As we waited for the train, we dug into the sweets (Mommy and Daddy also celebrated!).
It was so crowded, as we were waiting to get into a full jam-packed car, Courtney questioned the train conductor about the carriages in front – we thought they were first class, but if not we were going to jump the crowds and go sit there. I’m not sure if we looked tired and harried or if he was just being nice – but even though it was first class compartments he let us go sit in the car. It was such an nice ride back into Paddington Station. Then it was two more trains and a nice (ugh) walk with all of our bags to get to our flat. Chayton had to be woken up since we couldn’t carry him this time.
Sounds like you all had a lot of fun. I hope Clayton got to buy ice cream with the money he earned from that tooth. I never got any money for my teeth 🙁
I did however, get to keep them and that's a lot of fun. I also have stories to tell to this day about how they came out.
I understand what you're saying about the guards but I guess they couldn't take the risk of being improperly armed. Thanks for sharing your photos with your visitors.