April 5th

After what seemed like just a few hours of sleep, we are up and at it again. We manage to get breakfast in at the Hotel. If you want to really call it that, it consists of toast and tea for me, toast and coffee for Bill and Sophie gets to have maple and brown sugar oatmeal brought from home. The hotel serves breakfast from 7:30-9. By 9:03 there was not a crumb to be found in the serving area. Different from the kitchen area, since that was totally disgusting. No clean plates, cups or silver to be found in the kitchen. Thank goodness breakfast was all disposable utensils. From here we headed to the tube station to catch up with Dori and family and off to see Sophie's dream, the London Eye. After standing in one line to buy tickets, than off to the next line to stand in line to ride the eye, was a total of about 2 hours. I would say it was worth it, mostly to see the look on Sophie's face as we rode ever so slowly higher and higher. You could not feel the movement and it was a nice sunny day the view was amazing. After a beautiful ride, although cooped up in the capsule, we decided to let the girls run a bit in the adjacent park. They played and the adults ate. Just a nice little snack of some crackers, sausage, tomatoes and the ever present bottle of H2O. We knew better. We where building up our energy for things to come. We headed off to the Museum of Natural History to see the dinosaur bones. Oh my gosh.... it was so crowded when we got there, it was a straight shuffle through the exhibit to see the bones. After doing the dino-shuffle, I had had enough. I said that I was done with the dinos. Sophie did have to do the potty run, which just happened to take us by the room where the the Blue Whale was. Wowwwie wow wow.... that thing was huge. It is hard to phantom the idea that there could be such an animal on this planet that is that big. We had a nice sit down adult dinner in a nice restuarant near Leister Sq. We called it an early night, since we had to get up early Monday morning for a 0525 train to Paris.