Scenes From a Wedding Day

Well, it's all over. The wedding was held, they marched through the city, they kissed, now they party. Hopefully. They probably can't go too crazy or get too drunk, which is unfortunate. I tried to make my way to the palace part way through the ceremony. Since the good stuff happened in the first 5 minutes of the ceremony it then got a tad bit boring for my taste, so I decided to make my way over to try and see some good stuff.

I stopped in Starbucks first (I know, but it's the only coffee place between my apartment and the palace, so it was all I could get). The guy ahead of me in line asked about the sizes. He inquired about what they all meant, and whether "tall" was the smallest drink size. I don't know about you, but I figured that at this point in the history of civilization and Starbucks that EVERYONE who lives in a developed country (especially in a city such as London where there are probably 4 Starbucks in any 1-mile radius) would know about the quirky sizes. I guess not this guy. Go figure.

Oh, there were also 2 women in Starbucks, sort of trashy looking if you ask me (trashy looking women in London? Who would have thunk it.) They asked for directions to Buckingham Palace, and said they had been in Hyde Park but got lost. So basically they were with the crowds of people watching the screens broadcasting the wedding, then managed to walk the OPPOSITE way from the palace, away from the masses of crowds walking TOWARDS the palace, and found themselves in Belgravia. Idiots.

So I walked over to Hyde Park Corner and at that point my adventure ended. They had the entrance to Green Park closed and no one could get anywhere close to Buckingham Palace. So we all, myself included, just sort of stood around for a while, looking at nothing. Well, we were looking in the general direction of the palace, but there was no way in hell anyone would able to see anything even remotely royal from there.

See? This is how far I got. This is looking down Constitution Hill towards the palace, way way way off in the distance.

People all bunched up, not going anywhere, not looking at anything, not getting close to the palace or the procession.

More people.

And more people. There were a ton of people around, just wandering.

So I ended up leaving and going to King's Road to do a few things. They were having a viewing party in Duke of York Square. 

They had a screen set up, and I heard them announcing a 2 o'clock fashion show (I didn't stay to see that). They also had little kids screaming messages to William and Kate and one said "happy Easter." Um, yeah, I think that kid has missed the point of today.

Duke of York bunting. I should have invested in a bunting company 7 months ago, I would be rich now. OK, maybe not.

Baby buggy bunting. See? Bunting everywhere. I would be rich.

OH MY GOD! There they are! I managed to catch them in the carriage making their way to Buckingham Palace. Oh, no, those are just random people taking a carriage ride down King's Road. Because why wouldn't you do that?

So those are my scenes from a wedding day. Pretty uneventful for me. I didn't get close, I didn't see anything, I watched it all on TV. And now I am off to Berlin! Auf wiedersehen!