Buckingham Palace

Up and at 'em again today for our last full day in London. I awoke from a nightmare in which I had been transported home to the school run 'but we've only just started, and we're having so much fun!'.

Luckily, we were in London when we woke up, and we left H & K to have a normal school morning, walked Kelvin to work and took the Jubilee line to Green Park for Buckingham Palace. We collected our tickets and had a cup of tea while we waited for our entry time. 

Buckingham Palace was very impressive. The tour took us through all the State Rooms, throne room etc, and included a viewing of Kate's dress in the Ballroom. Bridie was prettty tired throughout the tour, but seriously perked up for this! Sadly for her and Rafferty there was no photography allowed inside the Palace.

 

From the Palace we walked down Picadilly and along Bond St and Saville Row to Regent St. After a big feed at a great italian place just off Regent St (Strada), we were ready to face a second round at Hamley's to swap Ashlen's Nintendo game for one that would actually work in his unit....sorted OK....but the Hamley's money magnet sucked some more £'s out of our wallet at the same time.

Met Kat in Hamleys and got ourselves to London Bridge via the Apple store to pick up the car at Tower Bridge. Kat and I got to drive home via the Rotherhithe tunnel and Warren took Ash and Greer home on the DLR.

We're off tomorrow to see Alf and Marge in Romford. It'll be great to see them, but sad to say good-bye to the Smith's as we've had a great time with them and could easily stay on in London for a wee while more...

Lyn