Buckingham Palace with Ellie. Grease at West End.

Trip Start Feb 28, 2010

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Trip End Aug 28, 2010

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Hackney, London

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Thursday, August 19, 2010

There was excitement this morning as we were catching up with Ellie who is visiting from NZ. She has looked after Felicity and Genevieve for a number of years and is over seeing her daughter Claudia who lives here. We all met at Piccadilly Circus for lunch and talked nonstop about all our adventures and news from NZ.

We then headed along Whitehall to see the Horse Guards and No.10 Downing St and through St Jame's Park to Buckingham Palace. The funniest moment had to be the poor guard at the palace tripping up and nearly falling flat on his back whilst marching back and forth in front of the palace gates. We had a sugar fix in Green Park sitting on the deck chairs and then headed for Speakers Corner in Hyde Park which Ross, Ellie's partner was keen to see again. Alas noone was there. So it was off past Marble Arch and up Oxford Street to find a pub for an early dinner. We are all looking forward to having Ellie back mid Sept.

We treated ourselves to a musical at the West End tonight, Grease. It was heaps of fun with lots of bopping. Being in the West End at night was great and we even made it home on the bus.

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Hi Ellie and Ross	Pub lunch	The horse guards	No major action at Downing Street today
Genevieve's favourite London landmark	Big Ben	St Jame's Park	Squirels galore
St Jame's Park	Relaxing in Green Park	Buckingham Palace	The royal guards
Pub dinner	At last, another bloke to have a beer with.	Heading into Grease at Picadilly Theatre	Enjoying the West End at night
Where is that night bus?