Jack Visits Relatives in London

12 January 2014

One of the museums we visited today was the Natural History Museum, where several of Jack's relatives live.

First up, the extinct giant deer:

Jack's antlers are, of course, bigger.

Here's the family history:

Behind the giant deer skeleton is a stuffed moose:

On this trip, Jack has seen three sets of giant deer antlers in Oxford (before I joined him in London) and two here. I've instructed him to record all of his antler sightings in his new giant deer notebook that I gave to him for Christmas.  Jack had found the link at the Natural History Museum's online gift shop.  We never got to the museum on our last trip, so I ordered it online when we got home.  I paid far more in postage than the notebook cost, but it was worth it for the surprise.  And, it turns out, the notebook is no longer for sale at the shop.  In fact, I can't even find an image of it online.  Maybe Jack has the last one.  The notebook has gone the way of the giant deer.

We had dinner with Mazz and Graham, a tradition we've kept for over a decade now whenever one of us is visiting the other's country.  It was about 10:30 p.m. when we left the tube station.  A typical English rain was falling, the kind that gets everything wet but doesn't appear to be falling out of the sky.  We passed our tree shadows again:

Tomorrow we're off to Ghent, Belgium by train.