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Sunday, June 14, 2009

I Want to be a Princess ♥ 12:08 PM


This weekend was very busy and productive, so let me catch you up!

Friday afternoon I went with three of my flatmates, Claire C., Kristin, and Linden out to Abbey Road. As I've mentioned in an earlier post, we had already tried to find it but this time we made it there. There is a wall in front of the recording studio that you can sign once you've been there, and of course we wanted to take photos of us walking across the road like on the Beetles album cover. Minor problem: it is a major road. So our pictures aren't all that great, but we were still there and it's pretty cool.

Then the four of us went out to dinner at this restaurant called Ping Pong that had been recommended to us by the girl at STA who booked our Paris trip for us. It is a dim sum restaurant, which is basically just like a tapas bar or a restaurant that serves appetizer like food. You had the option of getting a bunch of different little things, or you could get a set-menu which was basically just a bunch that went together. We all opted for the Sum It All up meal, because since we hadn't had dim sum before we weren't sure what we would like and it was a really good price for how much was included. It was absolutely amazing, probably the best food that we have had in London. We will definitely be going back. We then went out to a night club but shortly after arriving decided to go home.

Saturday morning we woke up and took our time in the morning and then Kristin, Claire C. and I went out to Windsor Castle. It was about a 30 minute train ride and it was fun to see a bit out of London while on it, not to mention that I haven't really been on a train since I was a child. It was actually a pretty cheap trip too. Windsor is absolutely beautiful, it's no wonder that it is the Queen's favorite palace and she spends most of her time there.

Just as we were purchasing her tickets, she arrived back from Buckingham, and as it was her birthday there was going to be a celebration there that night. Although it was cool to get photos with the Queen's standard flying above the palace, it meant that the State Apartments were closed as was St. George's Cathedral, which is where King Henry VIII is buried. So that was sad, but we got to see Queen Mary's doll house. I wish I could have taken photos, but it wasn't allowed in there. It is basically a huge, elaborate, gorgeous doll house fashioned to match Buckingham Palace. We also managed to catch the guards changing and I'm going to put up my video of it. It's quite funny because it takes them like 5 minutes to do something that could have taken just a few if it weren't for all of the formality.
This morning we woke up early and took another 30 minute train ride out to Hampton Court Palace. I was absolutely giddy to be there because it is the castle that much of Henry VIII's saga unfolded in and that means that Anne Boleyn and all his other wives and courtiers walked 500 years ago. It wasn't nearly as beautiful as Windsor as far as the palace itself goes, but we were definitely able to walk through more of this one and it has a history that is very much near and dear to my heart. It also had absolutely beautiful, expansive gardens. Unfortunately we didn't get to walk through much of them because they were so large and we had already been walking through the palace and the hedge maze well into the afternoon. We got to see a special portrait gallery called Henry's Women and it had portraits from all different museums of Henry's wives and two daughters (Elizabeth and Mary) all gathered together for this exhibit. It was really very cool and informative. We also got to go into the royal tennis courts, and King Henry absolutely loved to play tennis, so I could just imagine it!

It's really hard to say much more about the palaces because it would simply be a lot of description and I'm going to leave that to my photos. However I can say that this was another weekend where I was left wishing that I had lived during King Henry's reign (although I hope I wouldn't have lost my head!!) Remember to check out my photos from the weekend! And here's some more!


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