Activities and aching feet

The last few days have been so jam-packed with walking to and from different activities that our swollen, little feet burn even to get out of bed to brush our teeth. Nicole is assured that if she even attempted to put her takkies back on, her toes would cling on to the sides of the shoe in protest. But I guess that that is traveling for you...we've all decided that next time we will leave the luxurious cruise for last.

We visited the London Sea Life Aquarium ended up becoming a favourite attraction for some of us in London overall. We saw sharks and turtles and luminous jelly fish. But the best part was walking through the all-glass tunnel, and watching the enormous Great White sharks swim beneath you.
We then took a train to Oxford street where we tasted our first cookie from Ben's Cookies. This is a huge, moist, milk-chocolate-melt-in-your-mouth cookie with various other ingredients. Jules had peanut butter added and Nix and I added orange peel chips. That same day we took two underground tubes and one overground train to Windsor where we decided to retire early to prepare us for our super exciting day the next day where we had an absolutely amazing time at Legoland. We all decided that the wet rides were the best since it was so hot that day. However, Miniland was extremely impressive too. To think that Lego builders have built these huge model replicas merely out of Lego, blows one's mind. I tried to capture as many of these models as possible, but the pictures do not do them justice.

For our last day in Windsor we walked around the town, checking out all the hospice shops for anything vintage to buy. Unfortunately, their prices in hospice shops are equal to our prices in a normal store, like Edgars. Nothing for R5 that used to be worn by some 80 year old woman back in her teen years...
We fed a few hundred more swans,geese, ducks and cheeky pigeons and then spoiled ourselves to a traditional British pasty (basically a delicious Cornish pie) and the most amaaaazing milkshakes that have ever existed at Shakeaway. I had a chocolate fudge brownie with crushed After Midnight and Aero chocolates (I know right); Jules had a Ferrero Rocher balls, Kinder Bueno and Flake mixture and Nicole had a strawberry cheesecake marshmallow and Oreo concoction. This place had more than 140 different flavours with odd human names...Julianne's was called Dave for some reason. However, the funniest one was called "Wicked Wendy" and consisted of frozen peas, pickled onions and whipped cream...I'm not sure if they were joking or not...

Tomorrow we return to South Africa. We have all been saying that we are ready to go home now, as one usually feels when they have left boyfriends, family, pets and goldfish behind, but I know that we will not feel that way tomorrow...even though we return to the place called home, it is always more difficult when the actual moment arises to leave.