London - Day 5

I am up a little later this morning; the kids were still in bed when I left to get some groceries around 7ish. It is another amazing morning, blue skies and the forecast is for a maximum of 28. By the time I get back from Sainsbury’s the kids are waiting for me. All I see is their heads hanging out of the window and their waving to me. The kitchen and lounge windows face the road and we are about 3 floors up. We have our usual fruit and yogurt brekkie and we head out for some morning tea about 10ish. We plan on doing very little today, Mia and I are still struggling with sore throats and colds. We decide that after morning tea we will just hang around the Covent Garden area. There is so much to see and do within Covent Garden that we are sure we can keep ourselves busy. We come home for a light lunch and while we are here we get some bad news about Harvey. Rebecca has been looking after Harvey for us and a couple of days ago he came down ill and it has become bad enough for the vet to decide he needs to stay over in at the clinic for a night or two so they can keep an eye on him and try and determine what may be the problem. We are all very concerned and being so far away makes it harder to know what to do. We plan on getting up at 2am (9am Perth time) to call the vet and try and get some news on how he is going. We also feel for Rebecca, she has been amazing running Harvey back and forth to the vets and giving him his medication. Everyone is a little upset so we decide to go out to keep our minds off Harvey and the Covent Garden market area seems a good spot to help with that. Kris and I have a drink in one of the cafe/bars there and the kids go over to watch the buskers in the main square. We kill an hour or so and keep walking in the direction of Trafalgar Square. When we get there it is packed. There is a heap of buskers here today so we watch a few before continuing on home. After a couple of hours relaxing at the apartment we head off for dinner. The streets are ridiculous, people everywhere. Not sure if it is always like this on a Wednesday night or if the magnificent weather has got everyone out for the night. It ends up being an early night and we are home by half 8. Hopefully the news on Harv’s will be better tomorrow.