{"id":191,"date":"2008-10-20T21:37:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T21:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2024-11-29T05:44:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T05:44:11","slug":"swapping-out-the-guardlondon-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Swapping out the Guard&#8230;London style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a Tuesday in October Buckingham Palace was still packed!\u00a0 Look below for proof.\u00a0 Katherine has gotten extremely good at weaving her way through large crowds and found a spot near the fence.\u00a0 I found a tall rock across the street and proceeded to climb it.\u00a0 It took a long time, however, before anything happened because the second group of guards from who-knows-where were kind of slow.\u00a0 Maybe they weren&#8217;t watching their watch very closely.<\/p>\n<p>The band played a concert consisting of a West Side Story medley (which the ISUCF&#8217;V&#8217;MB has already done) and songs from The Incredibles (which the ISUCF&#8217;V&#8217;MB has already done).\u00a0 The soldiers just stood there and waited to guard something.\u00a0 Too bad for them.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see the royal flag below in a picture because THE QUEEN WAS IN THAT DAY!\u00a0 We were mere hundreds of meters from the Queen of England, with only a few dozen guards, their bayonets, and their ridiculous-looking hats between us.\u00a0 Katherine seems to remember meeting the Queen, but that was actually at the Wax Museum later.\u00a0 Keep reading.<\/p>\n<p>After seeing the guards change (and thinking we met the Queen) we moved on toward Big Ben and Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid 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found a tall rock across the street and proceeded to climb it.\u00a0 It took a long time, however, before anything happened 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