What A Royal Day!

We toured London seeing the highlights from the bus. Many of the highlights shown had royal significance. We ended that tour at Buckingham Palace with the witnessing of the Changing of the Guard. Pretty impressive when you realize how serious the guards are taking their role. The Queen was in residence today at Buckingham Palace.

Upon finishing that tour, we travelled via bus to Windsor. We had lunch in the little town with a tour of the castle which I thoroughly enjoyed. The place was jumping with activity in preparation for Princess Eugenie’s wedding on Friday. (Prince Andrew’s daughter). We were told that the Queen was expected at anytime, but she didn’t show while we were there. Darn!

We saw the chapel where Harry and Meghan tied the knot and the place where Charles and Camilla were allowed to have their civil service.

Just a lovely royal day!

Tonight we will return our Oyster card (subway cards) for a refund and prepare for our train ride to Edinburgh tomorrow. London is a favourite of mine. I just love to drink up all the “Royalness” and history. The similarities between Canada and the UK is so obvious. We really are just an infant country in terms of our pasts. Infant or child to the mother country. I know, mom, you think I’m weird for loving the history of it all, but I just love it!

As we drove back to the hotel today, we saw many dogs in the parks. I always marvel at how many people here have dogs, let them off leash and the dogs just come back to them. My Sophie, the Jack Russell and avid “hunter” would be gone for days I’m afraid if we let her off leash in these massive parks.

I’ve also decided that as much as some of you know I am a huge Darian Durant fan, multiply it by 100 times for the Royal family.