Lovely London

Enchanted Palace my foot

Thursday and Friday in London, nothing better.

Thursday was theater class with John and then a tour of the Globe, all fun things but I was simply exhausted for some reason so after the tour it was a pretty dull evening.

Friday(today) was Mike's class and we went to Hyde Park and the Kensington Palace. I've become quite fond of these classes. The pace is a bit slower and I feel that a start time of 2:30 creates higher energy levels.

Mike meets Oliver

We saw so much. Mainly of the fauna variety. Swans, ducks, pigeons and of course rabid squirrels. It was great fun, the group kindly acquiesced to my Olsen twin movie obsession and we visited the infamous Peter Pan statue.

Just me and Mary-Kate

Then we all got tickets to the Kensington Palace, which had a special exhibit called the Enchanted Palace, to quote from Greek Week....blaughh. It was so Disneyfied even Mike complained. It took work just to learn about the basic history of the palace!

It was originally built because King William had asthma and detested Whitehall Palace. So William and Mary called up their favorite architect, Sir Christopher Wren to build something in the clean air of Kensington. So the King and King purchased Nottingham house in 1689 and had Wren go crazy and create a new home with fresh air, which he completed around 1718. There have been numerous improvements ever since, and unfortunately we happened to tour the palace when some renovations were going on, thus the crap princess, enchantment gig.

But nevertheless we had an amazing time, it was relaxing and beautiful just what I needed before a weekend of Milan madness. I am so excited for gelato and leather goods. I will most definitely be returning on Monday with a drastically different bank account level.

Ciao!