8.03.2008

London: Day 3




Our third day started off properly with an audio-guided tour of the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace, a brief break at a local eatery for some fish & chips, then off to Buckingham Palace for our 2008 visit. The tour changes every year, and our 2008 tour was much shorter than the one we took during the summer of 2007. We were able to see how they set the grand ballroom for a State dinner (wow)…everything is measured…but weren’t able to show Nana the Queen’s royal jewels (Lisa’s favorite part of last year’s tour). At the end, Kaleigh and Ashlyn drew a picture for the Queen. Their picture was rolled up into a scroll and the attendant tied a small red ribbon onto each one.

We walked back to hotel through St. James’ Park where a marathon session of pigeon chasing ensued with Ashlyn in hot pursuit of the especially plump and slow British pigeons.

Dwayne and Lisa walked down to Piccadilly Circus to catch dinner at Planet Hollywood. Somehow, we got lost on the way back to the hotel…it was a nice diversion onto a street filled with Cartier, Gucci, D&G, etc. You know...a man's worst nightmare. Not that we actually shopped in these stores...but it was nice to look! It was a easy day all-in-all...trying to show Nana the biggest tourist spots in London...in three days...that's a tall order!

2 comments:

The Kasdan Family said...

Glad to see you're back in business on the blog! We've missed you. Certainly looks like you all had a blast.

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