Next day started when the youngsters woke us up at 7 am. We spent the day visiting the Natural History Museum in central London which was crowded but fun. Both kids came away with a gift: a cuddly toy – a long-eared rabbit christened Bella – for Yasmin and a 23-piece \u00a0plastic dinosaur adventure set for Lucas. Back at home, they watched a DVD which we had bought them to keep: the wonderful Walt Disnety animation “Frozen”<\/em> [my review here<\/a>].<\/p>\n Both kids are very creative. So, after the film, Yasmin designed a special “Frozen” cake on my iPad and Lucas built a Lego Star Wars V-19 Torrent Starfighter. Dinner was yummy fish & chips. The second night actually proved no easier at getting them to sleep but, in the end, I lay down with them for a while to calm and comfort them and that did the trick.<\/p>\n The best exchange of the visit – My wife Vee has two nephews and one of them has two children: Yasmin (8) and Lucas (almost 6). Since they have now begun their Easter break from school. we\u00a0have just had the two kids to stay with us for two days and two nights (only their second sleep-over with us). Together with their mummy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14232"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14260,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232\/revisions\/14260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"](\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Y+L1.jpg\")
\nVee with Lucas & Yasmin at South Kensington
\nunderground station which serves three museums.<\/span><\/center>![\"](\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Y+L2.jpg\")
\nYasmin & Lucas in the mammal section
\nof the Natural History Museum<\/span><\/center>![\"](\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Y+L3.jpg\")
\nTwo species of monkey in the
\nNatural History Museum<\/span><\/center>
\nThe next day was an even earlier start: 6.40 am. We went to a morning showing of the 3D version of the animated film “Rio 2”<\/em> [my review here<\/a>] which we all found colourful and joyful. Still in Harrow, we had lunch at a local branch of “Prezzo”. Yasmin demolished a large calzione followed by ice cream, while Lucas has spaghetti again (this time with meat balls) and then profiteroles (his first time).<\/p>\n![\"](\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Y+L4.jpg\")
\nYasmin & Lucas about to see their first film in 3D<\/span><\/center>\u00a0
\nAt this point, it was time for Vee to drive the kids back home to Egham before she drove to visit her twin sister near Bognor Regis for a couple of days. For me, it was back to work after a most enjoyable interlude – the children were a sheer delight.<\/p>\n
\nRoger:”Lucas, did you hear what we said?”
\nLucas: “I heard – but I wasn’t listening.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"