london: hyde park in the fall.

every time i come to the computer to post about our trip to london i get super overwhelmed and/or distracted and end up watching videos and getting lost in the internet instead. (have you seen this one?! #notmybieberbaby)

it's just that i have 700 pictures to sort through and how do i even begin to talk about this trip? we did so much and saw so much and it's hard for me to sum it all up... "london was amazing. we had fun. i pushed my stroller EVERYWHERE. we ate a lot of pastries" (?!?!).

i'm going to ease into this whole blogging about london thing with pictures from our afternoon at hyde park first. hyde park is incredible and you should definitely put it on your to-do list if you ever find yourself in funky london town (saying that just never gets old. i'm sure you feel the same way).

the highlight of my life visit to hyde park was feeding a squirrel FROM MY HAND. that's right! the squirrels there are so friendly they just eat out of your hand, like "hey! i'll take that sweet potato puff right there! mind if i just sit here for a moment before i scurry back up my tree?". CRAZIEST THING EVER!

hyde park was also evie's favorite outing of the trip, what with the horses, squirrels, ducks, swans, birds and dogs running around everywhere, pretty much it was heaven. if we ever move to london (maybe! someday! right, g?) you better believe we would go there every day.

so, a stroll through hyde park in the fall, how does that sound? let's do this!

there is a napping baby in that stroller, fools!

this was cool, but also what the eff is happening here?

kensington palace like it aint no thing.

 there then. hope you had a nice time.

happy jet lag!

this morning i woke up at 5am, due to the lag of the jet, craving a bagel. my eyes have not seen this side of 7am since evie was a newborn, so i thought i'd get up and see what an early morning in the darkness might have to offer me.

(it's not all it's cracked up to be. these early mornings i've heard so much about. and now you know.)

and in case you are wondering, we made it home! we survived! i took a baby to a country i've never been to and dragged her all around the city like a true tourist and lived to tell the tale! gosh, we had the time of our lives (more later).

yesterday was halloween, one of my favorite holidays in all the land, and boy did we live it up! i've always dreamed about having a baby to dress up on halloween and now that i finally have one, i lived out all my halloween-with-a-baby fantasies.

first evie and i woke up late after what was sure to be the longest day of evie's entire life and had ourselves some breakfast and a morning snuggle. we did the usual. made the bed, vacummed the rugs, took a shower/bath, curled our hairs and i thought to myself, "pshhhh. easy! taking a baby across the world and through a bazillion time zones and on two humongous flights in one day...no big deal! look at her, she's FINE! and i'm supermom!" or something like that.

and then we started getting tired. like face first in your morning cereal kind of tired. the kind of tired that not even a cold diet coke and a nice dose of caffeinated breast milk can fix and that's when i knew both of us had come down with a serious lag of the jet.

i called g to lament, "we're jet-lagged!!" i cried. "it's 8pm in funky london town right now and evie is exhausted but won't take a nap and she's crying! and she never cries! and what do i do??" g didn't know what to do. and i didn't know what to do. and man was it a really terrible day.

by 4pm i had canceled any halloween plans we had and by 5pm i had given up hope that evie would ever give into her exhaustion or allow me to even think about setting her down for even a second, unless i wanted to suffer the wrath of a jet-lagged baby! (don't mess!)

eventually g came home from work and managed to get us to the ward trunk-or-treat party long enough to take a few pictures and procure a sucker for mama and some crackers for the beeb and then we were home to give up the good fight and put our sad little exhausted lady bug to bed.

JET LAG! who knew?!

so yes. totally the halloween i pictured all those years when i was baby-less and dressing up dogs as firemen. totally.

NEXT YEAR!