The Buckingham Blog

Last Saturday morning Krystal and me took the early flight down to London. Krystal's nearly two now ( where has the time gone ?) and has never been down so the trip has been well overdue for her to meet some of her family and visit her  Nana and Grandad's.

So we arrived in Luton around 11am where we met up with my parents. Krystal was a bit shy at first but nothing an offer of food and drink didn't get out of her soon :-). We took the train back to their flat and stopped off for an hour or so for Krystal to have a sleep before we headed out again to pull a surprise visit on my Nan (Kids' Great-Nan).

She's not been very well recently so it was good to walk in an see a big smile on her face at seeing us both. Krystal didn't seem as shy at this introduction and insisted on chasing the cat around the place for the hour or so we were there.

 Here's a rare photo of 4 generations of Buckingham's together

And that was really Saturday! By the we got back and had some dinner it was getting late for Krystal and she was quite tired from the long day.

Next morning we had a bit of a chill out. Krystal spent the morning playing with mine and Kelly's old toys from when we were kids. She loved the toy house and elephant rings.

We all headed out after that with the plan of going to the O2 Arena for a bit of a nosey and some brunch.

We decided to go via Westminster to get some piccies and onto the Thames boat trip to the "front door" of the Arena.

O2 was HUGE. I've only ever seen it on the TV but I didn't realise that there was so much going on inside it. Krystal got in the front door saw the large reception and just legged it. She'd been couped up in the buggy, train and boat for most of the trip so wasn't waiting to take advantage of the situation and have a run around.

We stopped at one of the Steak and Grill Bars for some "all you can eat" lunch. It was really nice although I felt like I had to roll out after finishing the full rack of ribs, coleslaw and chips I had. Even with Krystal's help I was still stuffed stupid.

We finished off looking around the Arena and after that headed for the train and onto Hamley's the Toy Store. It was about an hour to get there and just as we walked in the door Krystal decided to have a kip. So there was us, 3 adults, all standing around wondering what to do with ourselves.

I had a quick look at the Transformers (couldn't help a nosey) before going back to the flat. The rest of the day was really spent there, being over exposed to "In the Night Garden" recordings (Thanks Dad)  Krystal had great funplaying with Mu's ducks too.

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And that was it really! My Mum took the Monday morning off to spend some time with us. We had a quick play before packing up, saying our good byes and heading off to get our flight back home in the afternoon.

Krystal was really good on both the trip there and back. Even had some compliments from the people we were sitting next to on the flight about her behaviour.

She was very tired when we did arrive back at the house and we didn't hear a single noise from her at all. Quite rare as we usually get singing, she obviously had a great time.

Thanks again Mum and Dad for having us. Hope you've recovered from the chaos.

James