This was probably the first day that I woke up and felt like I’d actually slept the night before! We started our day early and headed over to Buckingham Palace to watch the Changing of the Guard.

Me and my beautiful sister. We had to stop for coffee on the way! (Also, y’all will probably notice that I’m wearing the same clothes a lot. One of the perks of the house was the washer/dryer, so I seriously only brought three outfits each for me and Eisley and I just washed every other day. It was awesome.)

Getting closer to the Palace!

Right outside the gates. Needless to say, we were not the only people at Buckingham that morning – there were THOUSANDS of people there. I wasn’t nervous hardly at all walking around London, but I was really on edge at the Changing of the Guard. There were just SO many people and they were all crowding in really close and I was trying to keep a hand on Eisley and my backpack and it was just crazy. I was definitely the most nervous on this morning.

The crowds got to all of us, so we opted to move across the street. I was way more relaxed after we did that.

Someone was bored out of her mind just sitting there waiting for the guards to come, so we had to dig into our emergency stash of M&Ms. 😉

They finally came marching through the gates and we saw the guards!

Okay. If you are planning a trip for London, I would not necessarily recommend the Changing of the Guard. When all was said and done, unless you were one of the maybe fifty people right on the gates, you couldn’t see anything. So, we sort of felt like we’d stood there all morning to watch the guards walk down the street and back. Just my two cents. 😉

After the Guards, we went to the Royal Mews to check out the Queen’s horses and carriages. It was really neat! The horses are GORGEOUS and Eisley could have watched them forever. They had all the carriages from the past and it was just amazing to see the opulence and how they changed through the years. They even had a little kid area where the kids could color and sit on tiny chairs, which Eisley fell right off of and whacked her head on the floor. Poor baby girl. A huge goose egg immediately popped up and we found security to ask for an ice pack.

The people at the Royal Mews were just incredibly sweet. They got me two packs, gave Eisley an audio tour thing to distract her and then when that stopped working, they also sent me and her back to the horses and she got to watch them eat and see them do a few different tricks and I had people coming up asking me how she was doing about every ten minutes for the rest of the time we were there. She had basically stopped crying about two minutes after it happened, so she was fine, but it was just very kind of them to be so concerned.

London is just lovely.

We spent a little more time walking around the Palace area and then went to the Churchill War Rooms. SO interesting, but by that time, Eisley was pretty much all done being touristy. 😉 Time for dinner and bed!