Our last day in England was pretty relaxed. We toured Kensington palace in the morning and looked at textile displays in the National Theatre. Kensington Palace is where Prince William and Princess Catherine now live. Our tour of Kensington was very different from the other places we've been to; they turned the rooms into these awesome "enchanted" displays... the displays told the story of 7 English princesses. But they weren't the typical happily ever after stories- they were all actually sad. For example, Princess Charlotte had two miscarriages, then went through 50 hours of labor giving birth to her stillborn son, then died 5 hours later. And all of the stories were like that.
It was interesting to learn about the ugly side of being royalty. Everyone likes to overlook that side, but honestly, I think there are so many challenges with being royal- no privacy, demanding expectations, who knows if your friends are true friends or if they just like you for your status, etc- that having a lot of money doesn't make the job look worth it. As if money and material things could make you truly happy anyway.
So that's my soapbox for the day.
We didn't spend much time at the National Theatre because there wasn't exactly a huge textile display. But we found these awesome chairs right outside the Theatre. They're giant! And they look like they're upholstered with grass! So we had fun taking pictures of that. :)
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| We got a great view of the London Eye on the way back from the National Theatre. |
I don't know how this happened, but I think my whole home ward will probably end up in London this summer. This previous Sunday, my neighbors the Bergstroms came to London on a business trip. So tonight, I went out to dinner with Averyl and the Bergstroms. It was so awesome! To see such familiar faces in such an unfamiliar setting was very strange. But I loved it, of course. And it was a wonderful way to spend my last evening in London!
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| This was on the tube and I really liked it. Maybe if I'm lucky I'll get to come back to London someday :) |
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