I picked Charlie up from school as normal and Sylvia and Hughie came to collect him and Courtney and drop me off at the train station. I caught the 13:39 train to London Euston from Lancaster. I arrived around 16:20 and my friend Teresa met me. I popped to Paperchase at the station for my next year diary. (I always buy them from there but ours was inside a Borders which closed down) We then made our way to the hotel, Teresa had already checked us in so it was just a case of dropping my stuff in the room. We had intended going to Trafalgar Square before the theatre so I could photograph the Olympic countdown with less than a year to go! But we chatted whilst in the room and then decided we'd be better going after. We made our way out to the theatre and chose a little cafe nearby to eat at, it was very nice and I had a toasted cheese and ham sandwich! Then it was time for Ghost, what a totally fantastic show, the cast were extremely talented and all have powerful emotive voices. It followed the storyline of the film exactly and the special effects were amazing.
After the show we did go a long to Trafalgar Square. 307 days to go!
We then retired back to our hotel when after another quick chat we had a good nights sleep.
A few weeks before I'd booked the trip to London I'd seen that Kate's wedding dress was going on public display at Buckingham Palace. I decided straight away I'd like to see it and when Teresa asked if she could come a long to London too I mentioned going to the Palace so that was it, we decided to go!
We had breakfast and because time was getting on and we were booked onto the 9:30 tour we took a black cab there! (*We drove down the Mall in a London black taxi*) I've been to the Palace many times but never been inside. The state rooms were magnificent, as you would expect! We saw the quadrangle that Prince William and Kate arrived to on their wedding day and then in the Great room, there it was, Kate's beautiful wedding dress. All her accessories were on display too and their cake. There was also a video showing how the dress was made. Truly stunning. We weren't allowed to take photos inside the Palace so these are some I found on the internet. (if you click on the image you can make it bigger for more detail)
After the tour you are escorted to the lovely palace gardens, there is a cafe there and we decided to treat ourselves to a £3.95 cake!!!! It was worth every penny though, the latte was pretty nice too, LOL!
We left Buckingham Palace and made our way to Alexandra Palace for the Big Stamp & Scrapbooking Show!
It was very busy, usually by 1:00ish pm it is quietening off a little so we were surprised to see it so busy, it didn't stop me having a good time there though, I bought the papers I need to make my Christmas cards and a few other nice bits too! I said goodbye to Teresa at Euston and caught the 15:30 train home, arriving back at Lancaster for just before 6pm where I was met by Mark and Charlie who had just returned from Preston after watching football!
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