Wandering From Circus To Circus
Today I ventured down to Oxford Circus (no clowns were harmed during the writing of this post) so that I could exchange my faulty airline power cord at the Apple store. By now we were navigating “The Tubes” with ease so it was no problem getting around London.
The Nokia store had a cool window display of funky headphones. All they sold there were cellphones and accessories, but it was heavily marketed as music store.
The Nike store was promoting their new line of ultra-light track shoes for the Olympics with a golden sprinter. And yes, the shoes were REALLY light!
After successfully tricking Apple into exchanging the power cord, I just started wandering around the streets aimlessly, eventually hopping back on the tube, for one stop north to the Piccadilly Circus stop. Still no clowns.
But they did have horses
The weather was perfect, and I had a cold blended vanilla drink in my hand, so I started wandering some more, eventually stumbling upon The National Museum (which was closing)…
…and Trafalgar Square which was quite an impressive site!!
After dipping my feet in the fountain to cool off a bit…
… I headed West under a massive archway…
… which lead to Buckingham Palace.
And once I snuck by the guards…
… I ended up at the gates of the palace. I should have called ahead however. Apparently the Queen doesn’t read this blog and wasn’t expecting my arrival. The Canadian gates…
…were closed.
But I was able to get in via the West African gates.
And then finally…
wait for it…
More gates!!
Turns out… the Queen had just run out to the corner store to buy some eggs and milk. I didn’t feel like waiting around on her, so I wandered the grounds some more to check out her collection of fountains…
…bronze statues…
… and gold statues.
Until finally it was time to go home, so it was back down into The Borg aka The Tubes.
Hey Jay: Don’t forget your Mother and Dad were baptized Episcopalians (Church of England)–so you have been at your origins, religiously speaking.
— Casey
July 29, 2008 2:21 pm.