A Weekend with the Roberts (and a spooky story...)

Sara's cousin Garath, his fiancee Jo and their lovely boy Rhys popped down for a weekend in SE5 recently. It was so cool to see them and we're really looking forward to their wedding in August.

On the Saturday we had a day out in central London starting with a picnic lunch on Hyde Park. Actually, we were joining Tim Mungeam and a cast of thousands to celebrate Tim's 40th birthday (congratulations, Tim!) and despite the rain we had a great time and managed to stay mostly dry by camping under a large tree.


Here's Tim himself celebrating with a bottle of champagne!


Afterwards, we moved on to the Natural History Museum. Somehow we had never been there before, but it's a fantastic monument to the Victorians' commitment to providing free public museums. Here's a pic of the Roberts clan studying a bizarre giant bear-creature from South America:

And here's the famous dinosaur skeleton in the main entrance hall:


After that, we went round the corner to the wonderful Science Museum. We went to see the Pixar Animation Exhibition. It featured an amazing '21st century zoetrope' in which physical moulded Pixar characters on a carousel appeared to come to life, jumping and dancing before our very eyes! It would take too long to describe how this animation marvel was achieved so you'll just have to go and see it for yourself!

Finally, we uncovered an amazing coincidence as we chatted with Garath and Jo. Dave's mum booked a mini-break at the Manchester Hilton hotel for Katrina and Dave's honeymoon last April. And who was the very friendly girl from Q Hotels she chatted away with on the phone as she booked it? Yes, it was Jo!