Sorry its been a few days since I last updated this. Its been a very busy week between the diamond jubilee and the start of the Euro 2012 soccer tournament. I don't have time to fill in the whole week but here's the pictures I've taken. Most were during the Diamond Jubilee pageant and the British Museum.
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| Before the Pageant. We were near the end of the route by the Tower of London. I was trying to show how many people were here but the pictures don't really do it justice. We were 7 hours early and waited in the rain and this is the best spot we got. |
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| The first boat is just bells that ring at random intervals. I don't really know how it works but it sounded cool. |
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| Blocked |
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| Boats |
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| More boats |
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| All the flags of the Commonwealth |
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| Queen's barge |
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| Queen is the one in white. Camilla (Prince Charles' wife) is the one in the confusing off white color. |
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| Royal Barge |
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| More boats |
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| Me |
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| First trip on a double decker bus. View from the front seat up top. |
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| British Museum. This is inside for clarification |
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| The Rosetta Stone |
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| Pieces from Egyptian Temples |
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| Pieces of the Parthenon |
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| I forget |
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| Piece of an Egyptian sarcophagus |
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| Part of the wall |
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| Mummies |
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| Gold Cloak |
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| Oldest known picture of Jesus. Doesn't look much like the usual picture. |
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| Medals for the upcoming Olympic Games |
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| Roman Statue |
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| This vase was really important for some reason that I don't remember. |
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| Samurai armor |
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| Easter Island statue |
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| Totem Pole |
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| Pretty view crossing a bridge after |
So I do have to share a few comments. One, my pictures of the pageant aren't great I have friends who had great ones though so I'll try and steal those at some point to share on here. Also the British Museum is unbelievably huge. I'd say we got through like 2/3 of the whole thing and I saw a ridiculous amount of stuff. Really goes to show how good the Brits were at nicking stuff from their colonies.
I also want to share one story from the pageant. This really nice old British guy was waiting next to us with his wife. Clearly his wife was far more enthused to be there than he was as she was scrambling to get a good view as he was hanging in the back to explain everything to the confused Americans but one quote he had to me was quite good. I made a comment saying something about how I didn't know how the Queen was going to handle the whole weekend of festivities at her age. At which he responded, "Well when you've spent 60 of your years sitting on your arse (ass) four days of exercise ain't to much to ask for."
Cheers,
Mickey
PS: You can click the pictures to enlarge them
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