Happy Friday!

Well, it's been a week since my last published blog. I have actually been constructing a blog during the week, uploading pictures of the inside of my flat, but the blogging website is giving me grief, so I'll just leave that for now. I have too much to write about!

Paul's twin daughters stayed with me last weekend. I met them with their mom at Waterloo station on Friday and then took them on the train back to their house on Sunday. We had such fun, but it was very tiring! Friday night I took them to my office because they wanted to see where I worked, and then we took the bus home because they love riding in the double-decker buses. We stopped for ice cream along the way (we ate supper at Waterloo station). When we finally got back to the flat, they climbed the tree outside the front of my building and then finally came inside and played until bedtime.

On Saturday, I decided that it would be their birthday with me. Their birthday is actually the 28th, but they are having a party out at their house, so we did a birthday celebration in London. We did some shopping in the morning - went to the farmer's market, the grocery store and to Woolworths, where I got them some Halloween costumes. Back to the flat, and then off to Covent Garden for the Lion King at 2:00. The girls loved it! I got them souvenirs, which I thought were fairly reasonably priced. Then it was home quickly and then off to Disney on Ice, Princess Classics. They loved that too (and so did I!). It was a long day, and they were getting a bit stropy towards the end, but we all had a great time!

Sunday was a lazy morning. We had to leave at 11:30 am to catch the train to their home from Waterloo, so we spent the morning doing craft projects, having baths and packing. I took them all the way to their house, and they were so excited to show me their room and the house. It was very nice - backs onto the canal. I came back into London and spent the rest of my Sunday relaxing and cleaning up the flat, which looked like a cyclone hit it! I was shattered (exhausted)!

This week has been pretty relaxed, with most of the executive out of the office. It is half-term here, which is a holiday week for the schoolkids. So they were working from home so they could spend more time with their children. I had a lot of paperwork-type things to do this week, so I wasn't bored, but it was nice and quiet in the office!

I'm trying to decide what I want to do this weekend! It's not that I don't have options, I'm just not sure what I feel like doing. And if I don't plan something, I'll sit around like a slug all weekend. Some of my options are: the Victoria & Alberta Museum, the Tower of London, painting my bedroom (which is a hideous orangey-yellow colour), St. Paul's Cathedral, or go to a movie (I'd love to see The Queen). In fact, I'm taking votes, faithful blog readers. What do YOU think I should do? Pick one of the above things, or give me some other ideas. I'm depending on you to help plan my weekend because, of course, you realize that whatever I do, you're going to hear about. So . . . the gauntlet is thrown, the challenge is given!! I need feedback, people!!!!