In the holiday mood

We had a little trip up to town today, to the Pimlico Road/Sloane Square area, as a friend of ours was playing Christmas carols with her brass quintet to help get shoppers in the Christmas mood. It's a fairly posh area, so we didn't do a lot of shopping ourselves (some browsing, especially during the 15 minutes when it decided to rain on us), but we did enjoy wandering around and looking at things, including the

organic food shop, which was doing mulled wine and turkey rolls in a little outside stall (we bought a gorgeous chocolate brioche loaf from the inside part of the shop - yum!).

We also had a look at the camels (yes, camels - three - tended by guys in Wise Men costumes) and

enjoyed the exploits of two Jack Frost characters...

When we were bored (and cold) we hopped on a bus over to South Ken, and hit the Science Museum for an hour or so...

always fun to do.

Sarah had a go at walking across the bridge (no fastenings, just held in place with forces) but wouldn't let me take her picture while doing it. I didn't push it...

I liked this wall of bubbles...

...and we al enjoyed the lights and watching the ice skaters outside the Natural History Museum (forgot my camera, so had to rely on my phone for photos - not so good!)