Its Daniels birthday tomorrow and he will be 11 but as he will be at school all day, I let him have his birthday treat a day early !!!!!! OK so it was my treat too 
Thomas, Daniel, my brother Marc and I drove to London, where I had pre booked tickets to see the Dr Who exhibition at Earls Court. We are all devout Dr Who fans so we were all excited. At least I think we all were, Thomas always plays down all emotions, if he says its cool then he is extremely excited !!!!!!!
In the foyer of the exhibition is a model of the Tardis so that was Daniels first photo call !!!!!
The first "chamber" were the shop mannequins from the 1st episode with Christopher Eccleston as the Dr. Not a good omen for me, as it was clearly shop dummies and I was positive I saw one move and was terrified, jumped out of my skin and yelped !!! much to the embarrassment of the boys and my brother !!!!!
The exhibition is set up really well and it kind of runs from chamber to chamber with most episodes covered. After the "scary" mannequins we were met by a talking model of everyones favourite Dr Who..........David Tennant !!!!!
Thomas was clearly reluctant to pose by the models..............(yawn 14 years old and acting it too !!!!) however I did manage to convince him to please let me take at least one picture !!!!!! We settled on this one of both boys in front of the Face of Boe.
We saw mock ups of prosthetics from various "monsters" from the series, really clever how they make them I have to say, and just about every character you can imagine from the recent three series of Dr Who.
Naturally the best is saved for the end but before we get to the "you know whats !!!" we were met up the Cybermen, again Daniel was more than happy to pose next to these threatening creatures
After a few more harmless monsters we met the Daleks, that in itself was quite funny, as they are probably one of the most scary sci fi monsters, I asked Daniel to stand in front of one of them, and the funniest thing happened as the Dalek came to life with a light show and two more emerged with the immortal words "Exterminate !!!!" Daniel literally jumped off the floor and we had to laugh at him. I did get a great pic of him later though.
We decided to go and get some lunch and ended up in the McDonalds by Picadilly Circus, then walked up Regent Street to Hamleys Toy Store, there are 7 floors of toys here so the rule was to cover each floor level by level and if we got separated no one went up or down a floor until we were altogether again. This was a great plan and worked really well, It was great, there are demos of some of the toys on each floor and the boys loved it.
Finally we caught the tube back to the car park and I drove home.
We have had a fantastic day and all decided we want to do the same day again in August when my brother, sister in law, nephew and niece are over from Iceland. It will be great !!!! Just maybe Sylvie and I can accidentally slip away and do some decent shopping of our own too
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