Kensington Palace

I, Sutton, went to London on Saturday with a lady from the church. Her name is Elin and she's an actress. She's really awesome and fun. We took a train to London, but the guy that sold us our tickets told us that we should take a different train to London than what we originally planned, but of course he was wrong. It went to Victoria, and that wasn't were we wanted to be. When we got there Elin said it would be ok, we could take the tube. We got to the tube and went in, but the line we wanted was closed for the weekend. We got the next best one and then took a bus to our final destination, Kensington Palace.

We got there and found her friends that we were meeting. We decided to eat before seeing the palace, since it was lunchtime. There was only 2 places to eat in the palace park. A pretty, over priced cafe with a wait, we opted out on that one, or a little sausage hut place. It might not have been a bad option, but Elin's friends were vegetarian, so that didn't really work. We decided that a walk was worth some better food. We found a cute little cafe and got lunch there. It was delightful!

We then went back to the palace to see the exhibit. They gave us a pamphlet with a map and a bit of info for each room. They had a section to write the names of the seven princesses that were mentioned in the exhibit. If you got them all, you got a great prize! A sticker... We then set out into the palace. In one room there was this weird throne called the seat of power. It was made out of pieces of knited sweaters. A lady that worked there made me sit on it and then had my court (my friends) bow. Then I had to make a wish. It was that I could see my dog. She stuck her head into the next room and shouted "The Queen wishes she could see her dog!" It was great. Another room, the Room of Enlightenment, had crazy hats hanging from the ceiling. My favorite room was the Room of Palace Time because it had some statues on the walls of a few of the Greek gods. It was great.

I figured out why you only got a sticker if you got the names of all the princesses. They had the answers in the Gallery of Dancing shadows. They also had a projection of shadows dancing together on the ceiling. It was really cool, especialy when I went and twireled in front of the projector so that my shadow twirled on the ceiling too! Over all I had tons of fun! These are pictures I took of the garden and the path leading to the cafe.