Once we had arrived in London, met the grandparents and
settled in it was late afternoon, so we decided to head out to Buckingham
Palace. I had looked it up ahead of time
and the changing of the guard ceremony was cancelled when we were in London for
Good Friday, so it made sense to just head over to the palace whenever we
wanted.
We walked to the Palace through Hyde Park where the kids
found a lovely playground and some of the biggest swans I have ever seen! We saw the Princess Diana memorial
fountain. As we walked through the park
it started to rain a bit, but the temperature was warm so it was still
pleasant.
The palace was crowded with tourists (including us!) but we
could see everything we wanted to. We
happened upon a special gate covered with Canadian Provincial Coats of Arms and
when we were looking at the Alberta Coat of Arms we met a fellow Calgarian.
We continued our walk down to Trafalgar Square where we ate
dinner in a busy pub. After that we were
all pretty tuckered out, so we took the tube back to the hotel, where we met my
husband and had a quiet evening.
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