So this post is a long time over due, i mean, the royal wedding was only about two weeks ago! anyways, here it goes!
After Norway, I headed back to London where my fourth grade teacher, Ms. Santos, had invited me to stay with her for the two days and in fact invited me to sleep outside with a couple of her friends for the royal wedding. We arrived at the campsite they had already staked out at around 9am. there were less people camped out than I was anticipating.
After dropping off our stuff we headed over to check out the crowds around Westminster Abbey.
It was very busy around that area. The crowds were massive, not as bad as when I lived in China, but it was still swarming with lots of people trying to move on very narrow sidewalks! They had lights on the abbey so it was lit up against the night sky.
It was also incredible to see the media center that was created right across from the abbey because it was massive. It was so bright filled with multiple studios!
We then went back to our campsite and headed towards Buckingham Palace. Now if you do not live in London, or have never been, these places (buckingham palace, westminster abbey, parliament, big ben) are so incredibly close to one another!
The mall, which is the road leading to buckingham palace was just magical. there were huge flags lining the street and as we got closer those changed into a groups of four flags put together. Again, they had the building lit up along with the statue in front and it was really pretty.
I think throughout the night i got about 1.5 hours of sleep, which wasn't a lot (especially knowing I had woken up at 3am london time on thursday to get back to london!) But it was worth it!
As day began to break a lot more people started showing up and the excitement really started to grow! We had great seats and were located right by the barricade! We had placed a flag in the tree and lots of photographers came up and tok pictures of it and our campsite while we were there, and at one point these italian broadcasters came by filming and filmed our campsite. They also asked me to stand up to film me because i was wearing a shirt with a large union jack. It was rather awkward because they didn't want me to really do anything so i just kinda stood there and waved for about 3 minutes.
We got to see the procession both to and from the wedding which was so cool. During the ceremony speakers were set up where we could listen to the ceremony and at the same time the Royal Guards (the men in red uniforms) were getting set up so we were able to watch the drills and how they get into position, which was not shown on tv!! Below are loads of photos from the day! so enjoy!! It was such an amazing experience that I would do again in a heart beat!!
After Norway, I headed back to London where my fourth grade teacher, Ms. Santos, had invited me to stay with her for the two days and in fact invited me to sleep outside with a couple of her friends for the royal wedding. We arrived at the campsite they had already staked out at around 9am. there were less people camped out than I was anticipating.
Campsite by night
After dropping off our stuff we headed over to check out the crowds around Westminster Abbey.
It was very busy around that area. The crowds were massive, not as bad as when I lived in China, but it was still swarming with lots of people trying to move on very narrow sidewalks! They had lights on the abbey so it was lit up against the night sky.
It was also incredible to see the media center that was created right across from the abbey because it was massive. It was so bright filled with multiple studios!
We then went back to our campsite and headed towards Buckingham Palace. Now if you do not live in London, or have never been, these places (buckingham palace, westminster abbey, parliament, big ben) are so incredibly close to one another!
The mall, which is the road leading to buckingham palace was just magical. there were huge flags lining the street and as we got closer those changed into a groups of four flags put together. Again, they had the building lit up along with the statue in front and it was really pretty.
I think throughout the night i got about 1.5 hours of sleep, which wasn't a lot (especially knowing I had woken up at 3am london time on thursday to get back to london!) But it was worth it!
As day began to break a lot more people started showing up and the excitement really started to grow! We had great seats and were located right by the barricade! We had placed a flag in the tree and lots of photographers came up and tok pictures of it and our campsite while we were there, and at one point these italian broadcasters came by filming and filmed our campsite. They also asked me to stand up to film me because i was wearing a shirt with a large union jack. It was rather awkward because they didn't want me to really do anything so i just kinda stood there and waved for about 3 minutes.
We got to see the procession both to and from the wedding which was so cool. During the ceremony speakers were set up where we could listen to the ceremony and at the same time the Royal Guards (the men in red uniforms) were getting set up so we were able to watch the drills and how they get into position, which was not shown on tv!! Below are loads of photos from the day! so enjoy!! It was such an amazing experience that I would do again in a heart beat!!
