Today we went to Buckingham Palace and watched the Changing of the Guards. It was pretty neat to watch, and oh wait!- The band played music inside while the changing was taking place... but what was one of the songs they played? Sweet Caroline. Ya, prolly one of the Queen's favs or something. (That'd be my guess.)
Umm then we went to Victoria Station and had ourselves a picnic in the sun. From there we went to Old Bailey and St.Paul's Cathedral. (I wanted to sing the song and feed the birds... but I didn't want to be judged/my friends threatened to leave me so that did not occur but) Then we went to the British Library which has a very impressive collection of various things. Some Shakespear's original works, Jane Austen's diary, origianl Beowolf, Alice in Wonderland, the Magna Carta. My fav section was the music... they had the original 'Messiah' handwritten by Handel. Some Mozart... and a BUNCH of scraps of paper and even a birthday card which the Beatles wrote the lyrics to some of their songs on. The best was for 'Help' where they wrote some lines, scratched them out and wrote over it. It was sooooo cool!
From there we went off in search of Platform 9 3/4 in King's Cross Station. So the other night when we came back from Wicked, we went past it and it was actually at Platform 4. When we went there today it wasn't there and people thought I was making it up... I was sad. I knew it was there (because it was kind of a strange place to put 9 3/4 and it was sticking out a lot, but fenced in at the time...)
Why was it no longer there and there was actually a smaller version than what I had seen by Platform 8 today? It was the set for filming for part of the movie. We could have seen Harry Potter for reals yesterday...
Then we had some dinner. Played some cards. And now Katie and Lizzi are heading to Scotland. Allison and I have one more day left in London, and then we head to Dublin. And then HOME on MONDAY!!!
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