E & F

Ok, so we combined two letters yesterday, as we didn't manage to do one the other day.  I am also writing this a day late as ended up with a migraine last night...

So E for EXPERIMENT!  We did the cola experiment, we added Mentos to Cola and watched the reaction...Cheap cola doesn't seem to work as well as the 'proper' cola used in the youtube videos you see!  There aren't any pictures or videos as N had the camera and didn't manage to get anything usable! We will do it again though and hopefully will get some pictures, so will edit and add some if we do.


E was also for EXPLORE.  We made our way up to London for the next part of our day, on the way going on the ESCALATORS!



We eventually made our way to Kensington Gardens, specifially to the ELFIN Tree in the Diana Memorial Park.

N was very excited at the ELFIN Tree and spent about 15 minutes looking at the decorations on the tree.

ELFIN Tree

FAIRY

 From here we spent a few hours playing in the Diana Memorial Park, which I have to recommend.  There is only one way in or out, and there is someone on the gate, stopping children leaving on their own and controlling how many people are in the park at one time.  So once you are in the park there is so much to see and do, from the usual swings and slides to a pirate boat to climd inside, surrounded by sand and with a water fountain and mini stream (no pictures as there were so many other children around I couldn't get a picture of anything without someone els's children in)!

We went on to EXPLORE Kensington Gardens, and came across the Round Pond and the Queen Victoria Statue.

      

From the pond and statue, we found the Palace... N was very excited to come across a real palace!

However, once we found out it wasn't free and we wouldn't have had much more than an hour or so to ok around we decided it wasn't worth going in!.. N wasn't happy with this decision and much to the amusement of the staff, she spent some time laying on a bench refusing to move!

Whilst inside the entrance to the palace there were some pretty lights that she fell in love with and spent a good 10 minutes just stood looking at them!

 








We went from here to finish our day looking around the beautiful gardens, with N remembering we are doing the letter F as well today and wanting lots of pictures of FLOWERS!