Crazy time differences: cmul

cmul

Crazy time differences

Apr 24, 2005 19:06

Gotta love coming home to pouring rain during spring break! England was so much fun and it just went by so fast. My mom was already there when Jeff and I arrived, and we stayed with my Aunt and Uncle. They live in Staleybridge, which is outside a big city (Manchester). From their house, you can walk around the corner and up a path and just see mountains and cattle and a resevoir.. it was soo pretty. We got there early Friday morning, passed out for a few hours, then went to a pub for lunch. Saturday we ventured out to the market and Jeff met some more of the family, including my 4'9" Nana. Sunday we had our little birthday cake and saw a movie. Monday we took a train to London for two days. While we were there we saw Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Westminister Abbey (big pretty church), Houses of Parliament, London Tower, Tower Bridge, the Changing of the Guards at the Palace, Hyde Park and some other fun stuff. Wednesday we went back to the market and then some big mall. Thursday we went to Blackpool and played on the beach and went to a sweet amusement park. Friday we went into Kingston, a cute little town. We walked around and then drove through the mountainy places and stared at the prettyness. A baby lamb decided to chill infront of our car too for a while. Saturday we flew home for many hours. Now Im hoooome. I took tons of pictures sooo lookey!

Me and Jeff at the pub on the first day.

View of the cattle from the pub.

My Nana, Jeff, Me and Grandpa Alf.

Me and Bub!

Aw, look how little my Nana is! Now that's why Im small.

View of Staleybridge from the pathway by my Aunts house.

Resevoir up the road from my Aunts house.

MooMoos by the path.

Bub, Me, Auntie Pauline, Uncle Jeff, my cousin's wife Fiona, and cousin Jason

Aw the cousies.

The boys trying to beat the girls at Cranium, it didnt work.

Blowing out our bday candles!

Fountains by the entrance of Hyde Park.

Jeff and his Peter Pan statue in the park. Sorry its sideways, Im lazy.

Popo on his horse going to the Palace. Blah its blurry.

The popo going under the pretty arch.

Close up of the statue on the top of the arch. One of my favs.

Huge Queen Victoria statue infront of the palace.

Buckingham Palace!

Guard of the palace with his funny hat.

Huuuge London Tower.

Tower Bridge.

One of the gates around the palace at night.

London Tower at night.

Getting ready for the changing of the guard ceremony that took foreverrrr.

The popo are ready to roll.

Some of the guards coming down The Mall.

More guards doing ceremony type stuff.

The guards on horses had to join the party.

So many guards in this thing. It was cool.

Getting ready to leave the palace gates.

Of course the band had to come out and play.

Everyone's leaving, all over!

On the way over to Westminister Abbey, we saw this popo with a huge gun. So I had to take a picture. He was guarding something special.

The brand new rolls royce that Jeff wanted.

Double decker bus and a cute taxi.

Part of the huge Westminister Abbey. It's a church that started to be build in 960 and it just kept getting onto. We stood over the things for Charles Dickens, along with tons of Kings, Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, some other crazy authors and artists and tons more. It was just so big and unbelievably gorgeous.

Houses of Parliament.

Big Ben!

Sweet view of Big Ben from standing right at the bottom of it. My other favorite pic.

Views of the buildings around Big Ben.

This is by far the sweetest motorcycle I have ever seen!

We spent FOREVER trying to find one of these Smart Cars to take a picture of because they are so fricken small. Just look where the actual door ends, it only seats 2 people and has literally no trunk. Its crazy how tiny these things are.