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Published: October 8th 2011
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The pretty gardens with all the pretty flowers! This morning we started the day by going to the Castle Gardens – Monique and Mum B both said it was pretty and there was a section dedicated to Alice in Wonderland... well we got there and there was not a single flower in the garden, just a pile of dirt! But that was ok because I was looking forward to seeing the Alice in Wonderland area because I had seen a picture of Mum and Dad sitting on a seat with a statue of Alice sitting in the middle of the bench reading... well when we got to the Alice in Wonderland part of the garden there was a statue of Alice but it was her going through the looking glass... disappointment number 2 – thanks again Monique! LOL
After taking some nice photos we headed to Debenhams – a massive department store Mum B has suggested again but this time it was a great suggestion! She had told us that this was where she got our jewellery sets from back when she went to England! I left with 2 new (slightly expensive) necklaces and 2 new (cheapie) rings. Nicole left with a bit more but good bargains too!
After
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Me next to Alice and the Looking Glass we eventually managed to find Steve (he was at McDonalds and we walked to meet him but he drove to meet us so it took a while to manage to be back together again.
After this we drove to Woking in search of a place that sold scrapbooking stuff and stamps but we couldn't find anything and I didn't know what to ask people because Mum and Monique had forgotten to tell me it was a MASSIVE CRAFT SHOP. We carried on our merry way (which I was later guttered about to find out it was a craft shop) down to London where we started our mission of driving through London as we needed to pick something up on the opposite side. I never realised how close everything is to each other because when you go on the Underground you don't get to see it – Charing Cross was really close to where we have been the whole time yet I caught the Underground there. Harrods was also close but I only realised it when we drove through there (although it took us flippin' ages to drive through there!). When we picked up what we needed to collect from The
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Nicole and I Clink we headed straight for the Sheraton Hotel to return the car and see if they noticed any damage from the baboons... they checked the car over very closely and reported that... nothing was damaged! Yah!!!!!!
We had to wait a while for the free Thrifty shuttle to come and collect us and drop us off at the right terminal. When we arrived Nicole got her pack off and went to get some trolleys for us but no-one realised that she hadn't collected her roll bag off the bus until I counted the bags and realised Nicole's roll bag was missing! Well she tried to run down the road but the bus was long gone, she then tried to run down the other side of the road but the bus didn't go that way. We stood outside loading up the bags we had and came up with a plan of attack to go inside then ring them and get them to bring it back – just as we were about to head inside the driver showed up again with Nicole's bag so that was a big relief... nice old man with no teeth!
We got inside and found some dinner
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Steve attempting to make flowers in the garden before boarding our flight.
Nothing too exciting to report regarding the flight, Steve and I watched some movies and now it is time to try and get some sleep!
Nighty night!
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