Yesterday I made Dave walk around Green Park and Buckingham Palace so I could see the setup for the little wedding that's taking place soon. One huge part of Green Park is cordoned off for all of the press that will be covering the wedding. There are tons of tents up, a few satellite dishes, and a really large green structure that we assume will be where the cameras and perhaps news people are stationed. The structure is sort of tacky, which is too bad since a royal wedding should be nothing but classy in my opinion. They also have signs up, all along the fence separating the media area from the park. I love that they felt the need to alert people to the fact a wedding is taking place. Do you honestly think anyone in London (or for that matter many parts of the world) doesn't know about it yet? If so, I would really, really like to meet that person.
Not only that, they have another sign telling people how to enjoy the wedding. How thoughtful.
They have a ton of flowers planted, all very pretty, but they are tulips and in bloom. I have a sneaking suspicion that in two weeks time, when the wedding takes place, the tulips will be dead. Sort of curious. Did they intend to have dead tulips for the wedding? Maybe they're going for a goth look? Or perhaps there's a plan B involving fake flowers, you know, to ensure a lasting bloom.
See the pretty flowers? Soon to be dead. And the huge green bandstand-like thing? Dave said it looks like Wimbledon. I think it's sort of cute they're combining two iconic British events in one.
More pretty flowers. And flags. Lots of flags.
Here's The Mall being setup. They were also in the process of getting ready for the marathon. So handy to have all these events together. That Will and Kate, they had their thinking caps on! Oops, I mean Catherine.
Here's the Palace. I was actually trying to get a picture of the orange cone, but the Palace somehow got in the way.
After walking around the Palace we walked through St. James' park to get to the Tube. I love St. James' park, and lately it has had really pretty flowers growing. Tulips also, so probably dead by the wedding but that's neither here nor there.
And more...
We also walked by the pond...
And it was there that we saw the Easter miracle!
Behold! A duck/goose/waterfowl thing WALKING ON WATER! Can you believe it? Notice the other waterfowl swimming by in the distance, in awe of their brethren. There were quite a few people gathered around watching this amazing event. It was spectacular!
And then we went home. We'd had enough for the day.
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