Perhaps he had just spotted one of the queen’s guards crack a smile.

Perhaps he realized it had been more than two hours since our last key re-caffeination periods.

Perhaps he was rather jet-lagged and therefore generally prone to wide-eyed wonder.

Whatever the reason, the London Eye watched over us as we explored the fair city just hours after disembarking from the plane. This was day one of our London adventure…and there were many more wide-eyed wonder moments ahead.