Day 21
June 13, 2009
by Feather
How about a 6am wake up call on Saturday morning. To Jane’s for a quick breakfast of wonderful herbed rice, bread, tea, coffee..fruit juice, and then over to Buckingham Palace for the Queen’s official birthday; Trooping of the Colours! A huge parade thrown for the Queen each year on June 13th. Thousands of people were lined up against the sides of the roads to watch the parade go by. Beefeaters lined the streets, the fuzz walked up and down, and also road on horseback [aww..isn't she precious spelling "rode" like that?] as well as some beefeaters. Then there was a marching band, lots of different troops walking together (they each had something different about them to help you distinguish which troop they were, but we didn’t know what meant what) didn’t really matter either..
Then royalty trotted by and the Queen’s sister and grandchildren? in a carrage [I love that Feather asks me to proofread, and I simply keep her mistakes because they make me giggle so much] and soon after the beautiful 83 year old herself (i think..)
Of course the entire ceremony took about four hours total, I just summed it up real quick. Half way through I couldn’t take the shoving and pushing and closeness to ALL so I backed away and went and sat on the grass in the park and people watched. What a fascinating species..
When the big to-do was for the most part over, Jane Ruth Kristyn and I were all treated to lunch by Virginia Tech’s credit card! Thank you very much VT! hehehe. It was a hole-in-the-wall pub, or so you thought. Looks here are deceiving.. a small alley way, a tiny door- really can open up into a huge establishment that you would never believe fit into that spot! Fish and Chips all the way! Kristyn and Jane tried the local pub beer- lemony Cricket.. it was alright.
After an entire morning afternoon event Kristyn and I ventured back home to get off our feet, catch up on reading and quiet things, in fact if I’m not mistaken, I took a good long nap 
I think I’m going to have to say *to be continued* because I can’t remember what we did the rest of that day.. and Kristyn’s napping now so I don’t want to wake her.. I’ll let her finish the day!
Trooping of the Colours
more trooping
horsies!
we did get more pictures, and an entire video of the bag pipes, the band ON horseback and almost the queen, but then the camera battery decided it had enough.. the other picture I took of the queen.. had Jane’s waving hand in it blocking her.. so.. I’m sure you could google what she looked like. Little lady in a fancy blue hat.. that’s about all we saw anyway.
