Impressed and amazed. That’s how I feel
right now. I hesitantly accepted a 3 month job offer doing something that I’ve
always enjoyed doing and wanted to get back to for the longest time.Hesitantly
because it co-incided with the 2 months holidays of the girls, and would mean
that instead of spending time with them in the holidays exploring London, or
going away for 2 weeks as a family to Europe, I would instead be working in a
temporary job, which would in all probability come to an end just as school started.
Still, I thought it would be a good work-experience for my resume and a way to
build some kind of network here in London. And best of all its back in credit
risk, which is where I have my expertise and skills, but working in a new
market.
The downside, in addition to the girls
disappointment was that I expected the hubby to be very upset about missing out
on the Europe holiday and having to babysit the girls for 2 weeks in London
instead of relaxing on the beaches of Corsica. But I’ve been pleasantly surprised,
impressed and amazed. This is the first week of their holidays with him (last
week they were in a multi sports camp from 9am -3 pm the whole week while the
hubby was in Zurich and I was working) and in the first four days they’ve
already seen more and done more in London than in the last 3 months. Their
schedule has been like this
Week 1 :
Monday : Scootering down to London Zoo and
spending the day at the Zoo. With birds of prey show where A wanted to sit
right in front next to the big owl and the creepy mice. Am I glad I did not go.
Tuesday : Changing of the guard at
Buckingham palace followed by lunch at Rainforest Café
Wednesday : London aquarium with becoming a
certified Dory rescuer, cruise on the
River Thames to Tower Bridge, then Tower of London in the afternoon where I
believe they were all disappointed with the size of the Kohinoor diamond, then
down to Leicester Square where I joined them for dinner at Dishoom
Thursday : British Museum, where S amazed
the hubby with facts about Cleopatra killing herself with an asp bite because
her boyfriend died. They also shared a joke about life expectancy where ‘Mummy
would be a Mummy by now if we lived in the olden times’. Ha ha.
Friday : Lunch at Salloo’s (a popular
Pakistani restaurant) followed up an afternoon at the Science Musuem. I believe
not as good as Technorama in Zurich, but some Science is better that no science
I believe. Dinner at a friend’s house, back home exhausted at 11 pm
It’s been really awesome weather in London
this week, in fact extremely hot. 33 degrees plus. I’ve been sweating it out in
office while the hubby has been relaxing with the girls. I say relaxing because
the hubby informed me that the girls are very well behaved and relaxed when
only he’s around and they only start misbehaving when I’m there!! Well,
anything which makes him happy..
Week 2 :
Monday : Wheelying at O2 with lunch at
Wagamama
Tuesday : Greek lunch at Spitalfields,
followed by browsing around the Spitalfields market (A got a smiley cushion and
the hubby got some 3D greeting cards)
Wednesday : Rainy day at the History museum.
The hubby and I squeezed in the latest Bourne movie at night with the girls
with the babysitter
Thursday :
The hubby and I again went out this evening to the Book of Mormons.
Amazing show, completely enjoyed it.
Friday : The hubby took the girls for Finding Dory at the Everyman cinema near the house. They loved the show (waah I missed it) and the large comfortable leather seats in that cinema.
Ok, before you think I’m just chilling
while the hubby is getting all the brownie points with the girls, let me add
that in the next one week I took the girls for 3 children’s plays. The Wind in
the Willows in Kew Gardens, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (superb) and the
Gruffalo (by now I was a bit sick of it and this last one was really quite
kiddy!).
