Park Hopping

Since the first day we got here we've been going to park after park.....London has some of the coolest parks we have ever been to....and they are EVERYWHERE! We have been having so much fun exploring them.

Here are some of the ones we've been to (and since blogger is so awesome at uploading pictures, they are in reverse order, starting with our most recent trip....today)


Hyde Park- The Princess Diana Memorial Park
Hyde Park itself is HUGE, and this particular play area is the largest we've seen.... there was so much for the kids to do. Several different areas, with tons of different toys.


a pirate ship in the sand


walking the plank....

steering the boat

of course little brother HAS to do everything big brother does

this is a water area that is on during the summer.... it rained today so it wasn't on

this swing was in high demand, we had to stand around for a while to get on


it was definitely worth it, the boys loved it

steps leading from the treasure chest and lookout to the tee pee village

adam loves going down slides

another play area that was like a giant tree house

we will for sure be going back to this park, it even had a fence all the way around, and only people with children were allowed in.... there was someone at the gate checking!

St. James Park

we found this play area by accident, we were on our way to Buckingham Palace, just walking through the parks, and found this cute little area.

The boys loved the teeter totter... especially when mom and dad were on it

these little snail looking things didn't do anything, but the boys thought they were riding horses!

there were also lots of swing, slides, and some other toys, but we didn't take many pictures.

Paddington Street Park

i'm not sure if that's the official name of the park, but it's on Paddington street... so there ya go. i LOVE this park, but more importantly so do the boys. this one is only a couple blocks from our flat and it is perfect! it's all fenced in (as most play areas are around here), it's covered by trees, there's a little gazebo that you can go under if it starts raining, the toilets are really close, and there is SO much to do! i met a girl that was there with her son and she was telling me that it was one of the best parks around, we are so lucky to live so close to it!


this is only about a third of the park... isn't it cute

adam has become quite efficient at climbing

and as i said before, he loves slides

awesome tire swing! blake stayed on this thing forever, i even got on with him.... and could have stayed there all day (we were laying down, it was great)

more fun toys

all blake wanted to do on this one was push me around on it (it's harder to stay on than it looks!)

very fun teeter totter

yay for swings!

this will be our place... we will go here often, i just know it!

Regent's Park

this is another park very close to us, it has 3 or 4 different play areas.... one of these days we'll actually make it to one! we went here the first day we got here, we were a little jet lagged.... so we didn't last too long. plus the boys were so distracted by the water and all the geese and pigeons that we didn't move very fast... we still had a great time!

they're getting pretty good at saying cheese (now if i could just get them to look at the camera while saying it i'll have trained them well.... they did pretty good here)

at first blake did NOT like the birds.... he still doesn't sometimes, but he's getting used to them, i think he was throwing a leaf at them here....

adam on the other hand LOVES to chase the pigeons around, and i must admit it is pretty hilarious!

we're loving exploring all the parks around here, and walking everywhere.... there's something about being outside, it just makes me happy! we'll see what i'm saying come winter though....