Ah, it is great to be back in London. Perhaps we didn’t do Paris “right,” or perhaps we do London “better.” I was glad to be back in London. The line for the return Eurostar trip was a joke – even if you were there when they said, they wouldn’t let anyone through security. This allowed for a mad rush through security, customs and then to find your coach (as luck would have it, we were in the first coach — so we had to walk a looonnng way and about 1 minute after we boarded, off we went). Walking into the train station in London was like a breath of fresh air. Everything was clean, the air felt good and cool, and everyone was speaking English. Don’t get me wrong, we enjoyed our time in Paris – it is probably much different with kids in tow than exploring it sans kids.
So today we decided to do the very touristy thing and watch the changing of the guards. This after stopping for a quick breakfast at the muffin man. We arrived to Buckingham Palace just around 10:30 – the crowd was huge. We decided to find a place by the fountain. I think this was a good choice because we could move freely about and watch the procession from various angles.
One little know fact is that they march in to the song “Tequila” and then do part of the changing ceremony to the theme of “Mission Impossible.” That wasn’t as surprising as when one of the guards did “the running man” and then followed it a few minutes later with a break dancing move (ok, only 1 of those 4 claims are true – do you know which one?).
