Some Royal Sites

Nicole, the first day we were there, no one could tell us about our class and what was going on with that. Then our second day (what was supposed to be first day of class) was postponed because our teacher was stuck on the underground. But yes, I remember what I'm here for :)

Next on our walking tour we saw the Royal Albert Hall which is still venue to many great shows in London. This is across the street from the Prince Albert Memorial, which shows Prince Albert in the center surrounded by four sculptures depicting the Victorian industrial age as well as four depicting different continental groups.

Royal Albert Hall

Prine Albert Memorial

Some more things we saw in the morning were Kensington Park and Kensington palace. The Queen's cousin Prince Michael of Kent and his wife live in Kensington Palace, but you can view the inside of part of the palace (which we didn’t go into). Part of the Palace rooms other royal relatives in the “apartments” of the palace. Diana lived there for a short time while she and Charles were split.

Kensington Palace – the statue you can see is of William III. He looks like Captain Hook to me

The view of the "apartments" on the side of the palace

Also, there is a Peter Pan statue in Kensington Park, which we haven't made it to yet, hopefully soon! There is a Peter Pan festival every year in the park where people dress up as characters from the movie

Next, we walked along Kensington Park and by Hyde Park headed towards Buckingham Palace. On our way we saw the Wellington Arch pictured below, which commemorated the Napoleon Wars.

Then came Buckingham Palace! It’s so pretty. We may or may not come back for the changing of the guards. We’ll see if we have time and energy.

In front of Buckingham Palace is the Queen Victoria Monument

This is of guards marching outside of Prince Charles home, which is right down the road from Buckingham Palace

They are such pretty sites. We saw even more that first day, I just don't want to bore you with too long of a London post. Oh.. not possible you say? I agree! So stay tuned.