Michael wanted to get in one last day of research at the British Library so Grace & Angela decided it was time to visit the Queen. We found our way through the tube lines to Buckingham and arrived just when the changing of the guards was about half over.
You can see the crowds are so thick and the traffic around the palace doesn't let up. We tried to get a few pictures between the buses of tourists who were trying to get a passing glimpse.
With all the rain and cooler temps the gardens around the Palace, and all of London, were lush and colorful.We walked down the Mall passing war memorials and statues, getting a great long-shot of the palace.
And past this statue of the Duke of York, which I reminded Grace of the Nobel Duke of York song we used to sing to her when she was little.
We kept wondering if we would get back to a tube station when we realized we had walked right up to Piccadilly Circus! I've never been to Times Square but I imagine it must be bigger than Piccadilly. Grace was definitely unimpressed but the two of us had lunch at a place called Garfunkels and then spent about an hour in the Virgin Records Megastore.
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