Love London!!

In celebration of the Royal Wedding and all things British, I wanted to take a few moments to ohh & ahh over the brief stay Matt & I had in London the summer of 2008.......

I do have a minor fascination of all thing Royal, so we did a TON of "royal" sightseeing......

Recognize this stately Palace?

 It is absolutely breathtaking in person....

We were only in London for 5 days but we came to see the changing of the guard 3 times.....

And to say hello to my favorite Queen....

 Funny, the Royal family didn't come out and wave at me from their "little" porch like I expected them too....

 But we did catch a glimpse of Prince Charles......

 Nah, it wasn't him, but it sure looked like him!

We visited a few other Royal Palaces, like Hampton Court Palace, where King Henry VIII spent most of his time with all 6 wives....

 And the Tower of London to see the Royal Jewels and where Anne Boylen spent too much time.....

 We took a ride on the Eye and were overwhelmed with how breathtaking everything is.  Everything has such an amazing amount of history over there - nothing compares to it here in the states.

Just look at how beautiful The Parliament & Big Ben are.....

 St. James Cathedral - I stood on the exact spot where Princess Di & Prince Charles were married...

 I couldn't get enough pics of this gorgeous clock tower.

 And we got to observe a church service with a  choir at Westminster Abbey.....

It was solumn and breathtaking at the same time.

And I can't possibly believe how amazing it is going to be on this Royal Wedding Day.

Which leads me to my dvr that has been up since 3 am taping all the festivities.  I kinda changed my tune from yesterday and am anxious to go and see the Royal Wedding.  I'm sure it's gonna be Fab!

Royal Wedding Bells Make Us Crazy!

The Royal Wedding (ya- you know what I'm talking about - William & Kate) is less than 2 days away and the world is going CRAZY over the nuptials.  With good cause - who wouldn't want to see a possible King of England marry his maybe Queen???

Just a mere google of "royal wedding" is frightening.  So many websites and live streams and "upload your wedding wishes for the newlyweds!" and countdowns and stuff.  Crazy stuff.

Like this story of a 19-year old lady from Mexico who went on a hunger strike to score some tickets (invitation??) to the event.  She didn't get any but at least she may be skinner.

NBC's TODAY show created an iPad app for the occasion.  Of course they did.

And did you hear about the jelly bean that had the face of Kate?  uh huh.  I'm not making this up.

CRAZY!

And when I didn't think it could get any crazier, I found these adorable souvenirs of the occasion.  QUICK!  Better grab them now before they're all gone!

yes. GE makes a fridge with their picture on it. 

this one's for the diehard.

you know you want one.

well, if you can't afford the Fridge, at least you can pick up some Royal Wedding Nail Appliques.

or maybe a Pez dispenser.

Just think of all the pez you can eat during the over 300 hours of tv that will be focused on the event.

You can wash it on down with some "Kiss Me Kate" beer.

and if you by chance get sick after all that off-brand beer and candy, just reach for your Royal Wedding Barf Bag.

can you believe over 8000 of these have been sold already?

 huh?

I really can't think of one witty thing to say about this.

But I do get a kick out of these:

Will & Kate Tea Bags- are they cute?

not.

I get the hype- it's exciting seeing a young Royal couple get married - making history - it will be exciting.  

But, I'm not crazy and I will NOT be up at 5:00 am Friday morning to watch it live.  Will you??

But I will admit...i'll probably DVR it.....