My little blacksmith shop how to get into the castle

#My little blacksmith shop how to get into the castle tv

We saw the London Bridge, which is about the 4th London Bridge, I think, and we saw a kind of a cable type bridge that the guide said started moving and acting like it was going to throw people off as soon as it was opened, so it was then closed and not opened for another few years until they figured out how to fix it. Some are very old, but many of them are new, and very impressive. I was amazed at some of the beautiful, magnificent buildings that line the Thames. The guy on the boat told us what the buildings were that we could see, told us some of the history, told a few jokes, and it was great fun. I even took a picture of the machine with the little turnstile we had to go through after we paid the 50 pence! That's about 75 cents! (I'll show you that exciting picture later) We took a boat on the Thames from over by Big Ben down the river to the Tower of London.

By the way, today I had to pay 50 pence to go to the bathroom! Sheesh. So we got to watch them marching in, watched them march through the big fancy gates in front, and then all we could see was the tops of their very tall hats.ДЇrom there, we walked back through the park and bought some sandwiches at a little very busy shop, and walked to where the River Thames cruise boats are.

Pretty soon we heard a band coming from our left, and in marched a band in front, and a new platoon or squad or whatever, of the new guards. We got as close as we could, saw other people lining the street there in front of the palace, and waited. There was no way we could get close enough to see the actual ceremonial stuff that takes place in front of the palace - there were too many people already there in front of us, and there was limited space there. As we got closer to the palace, we could see very large crowds of people all around, and we realized that we weren't there early enough. The weather was just a little cool, and the leaves are starting to fall from the trees, so we walked in a big green park with a shower of leaves around us. So here we were, walking up the mall, which is really a long street that all the royal processions go down, through a beautiful big park area. It rained most of the day yesterday, and we had a beautiful thick fog out on the field this morning, but the sun shone and burned it all off, and we had bright sunshine all day long. Today was an absolutely perfect day, by the way. The changing of guards at Buckingham Palace was at 11:30, so we started walking up the 'mall' towards the palace. We got there to take a few pictures, anyway. We got to the Horse Guards area first, but they started at 11, exactly on the dot, as Big Ben was chiming, which was as we were walking up to the parade grounds, so we missed most of that. There's actually 2 places where you can see the changing of the guards, one is at the Horse guards area, and the other is at Buckingham Palace. Then we climbed stairs up to the street and took off as fast as we could to find the Palace. (we didn't - there was NO WAY I was going to get Mom on that thing!) Anyway, we pulled into London, got off, and then went and rode the 'underground', the subway, which was another adventure Mom had for the first time. So you can pay LOTS of money to go on this thing, and you have a beautiful view of London. It doesn't stop for people to get on or off, it just keeps moving very slowly. It turns continuously, but very slowly, and has these glass pods on it that hold about 24 people. It was built by British Airways, and it's like a huge (and I DO mean huge!) very slow ferris wheel.

#My little blacksmith shop how to get into the castle tv

Roger showed me which side to sit on so I could get the best view of London as we rode in, and it was fantastic! As we got close I could see almost all the sites I've only heard about or seen on TV - I saw Big Ben, Westminster Abbey and a bunch of other big, old buildings that I didn't know, and I could see the newest thing in London - it's called the London E ye. This train was a little faster than others I've ridden, but it wasn't so fast we couldn't see the countryside as we went. That, by itself, was really fun! Sorry, Corey, I couldn't find the right place to get to Hogwarts! I haven't ridden a train since I was in Sweden.

We drove right into Woking, parked the car and walked to the train station, and rode the train into London. We started out earlier this morning, since we wanted to be in London in time to see the changing of the gua rd at Buckingham Palace. I'm really tired! Not as tired as Mom, but really tired! And I have a big blister on my little toe. This will be interesting to see if I can get up the energy to write this blog.