Papa C's Birthday in London

This week saw my pops down in London for a couple of days. During his stay, it was his birthday so Dan and I decided to take him out and do something nice.

Seeing Dad wearing his shades, listening to music walking in the London summer sunshine, I have to say not only did he look younger than his age but looked so cool! He told me he was walking down the Mall when he saw David Cameron jogging with some security guards. He managed to grab a few snaps of the sweaty Prime Minister.

I took him to St. Paul's for the sung Eucharistic service. There was a choir and they used the incense which was so so nice. The church was beautiful too, so grand and full of history. After that, we went for a coffee and headed to Soho to go for a lovely Thai meal together.

The lovely TomYam soup that Dad and I love.

Our eyes were definitely bigger than our bellies. We ordered too much, and ate too much, but it was just so so nice! We walked out of there holding our tummies!

After we got in, Dan and I surprised him with a yummy Lemon Drizzle sponge with some candles - you can't have a birthday and not have a birthday cake!

It was a really lovely couple of days :) Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did, Dad :)

Don't mean to brag or anything.

But loooook!!

I took these photos the other day when Dan was caught in a conversation with the little old man from downstairs. I got a little bit distracted and started watching the honey bees on the flowers.

I actually took this on Saturday but just assumed the shots were rubbish because the bee was buzzing around the flowers to fast but I couldn't have been more wrong!

Looook!! This photo is awesome!... (a little fuzzy but still!) And it was taken on my iphone which makes this twice as impressive!

So, there you have it. An over-excited Ruthay and a lovely close up of a honey bee...(did I mention it was taken on my iphone?! Oh yeah....sorry.)

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