Hawaii- LTs trip

We all went to Hawaii for spring break, but LT went with his buddies to the big island.  I wasn't there obviously, but he did send us a bunch of photos, here are a few.

 

Swimming

B doesn't always love going to the swim meets (to be fair there are A LOT of them), but he does like seeing his older buddies.

Its pretty rare that these two are on the same relay team, but its always fun when they are.

 

B and Lexi

These guys see each other a lot in the summer, but not as much during the year.  They have fun though when they get together during the year!

Ice cream nachos before mighty movement!

Cuties.

Random day off for me meant a longer run through the park for this one.

 

Radoms from early March

We love Nanas dumplings and happened to have reservations on Chinese New Year!  

As part of AP Spanish, these guys had to make something for a feast.  They made tres leche cake.

Annual ski trip with these two and the moms.  Not much snow, but a fun time.

 

End of February

Lots and lots of swimming and friends from swimming eating and hanging at our house.

And Fugo de Chao with the family to visit a former student!

 

Meanwhile at Home

 While we were gone, the big kids were very busy.  They had a 2 day swim meet, friends over for dinner twice, dinner with Grandma and Papa twice, work, school and who knows what else!  We were able to talk to them a few times and they seemed very happy!

Last full day in London

Ramadan happened to coincide with our time in London and this beautiful install was right next to our hotel.

Ended up being our favorite restaurant in London, we went 3 nights in a row!

B and I woke up relatively early to eat breakfast and get to the History Museum to get in line in hopes of being able to visit it.  We were successful, but it didn't capture B's interest as we hoped.  We did, however, see they had a space exhibit (with timed admission).  Unfortunately our time given was nearly 3 hours later, fortunately, Bri would be back with us, so we got three tickets and headed to lunch and back to meet Brian at the hotel before returning to the museum.  

And of course some yummy pastries as a late afternoon snack.

One area I hadn't been to before that I wanted to explore was SOHO and Chinatown, so we took the bus to explore this area.  Unfortunately, it started raining, was very crowded and was super cold, so we didn't stay long.  

 

London- Day 4

Prior to our trip, I loosely planned out what we wanted to see and do each day and booked the Tower of London for day 4.  We did not luck out with the weather the majority of our trip, but the day we went to the Tower of London and the Burough Market was the most beautiful (albeit cold) day we had.  This was lucky given that is all mostly outdoors.  (B wasn't too into having his photo taken this day either).

I purchased the audio guide for each of us which said to plan about 2 hours at the Tower of London and the grounds.  B spent nearly 3 and I had to pull him away because I knew he was starving.  He soaked up all the history and learned so much (I did too, despite having been there before, I didn't remember all the history).

From there we walked a mile down the river to Burough Market where we got burgers and sat on the ground people watching).

And of course hit up the famous chocolate covered strawberries after quite a long line.