My parents came to London to visit me and we had an amazing time. We traveled all over the city and did some amazing things that even I had never done before. We saw the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, which was pretty cool with the Queen’s Guard Band and all of the Guards dressed in their Bear fur hats. We also took a ride on the London Eye, and saw the whole city of London. We also took a night time river cruise on the Thames and saw the city at night, which is really beautifully lit.

They attended some theatre tours with my theatre classes to The Restored Shakespeare’s Globe and The Royal National Theatre, which was very interesting. We also saw Wicked while they were visiting, which is a spectacular production, even though Idina Menzel had to duck out halfway through the performance because she was not feeling well. Her understudy did an amazing job, and she will be taking over when Idina goes back to New York in January.
We also toured the Tower of London, and Kensington Palace and took a trip out to Hampton Court Palace on the train to see a few more historical royal palaces. The gardens were still beautiful in November! I can’t believe it.
After a week of playing tour guide with my parents, my sister and two of my aunts came to London for a visit on the same day my parents were to leave and the adventures started all over again. Same stuff with slightly different theatre.
Instead of seeing the changing of the guard we were able to see the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Centograph which the Queen and the entire Royal family attended as well as over 1.5 million retired service men and women from the armed forced and police services. It was a very Long, but impressive service, and we were only a few meters away from the Queen!

We also saw productions of The Lion King and Phantom of the Opera while they were here, both from amazing seats on the floor. Both shows were good, but I had previously seen them here or in New York, but it was still nice to be able to go out and enjoy myself with my family.
And what girls week would be complete without tons of shopping? We hit Covent Garden Market, Camden Market, Picidilly Circus, Leicester Square and the Strand. I have never seen so much shopping going on that they had to bring extra luggage home. Well they also took some of my shopping home, but it was a lot of fun.
It was relly great to see my family and it will make this last month in london a little easier, but I am still looking forward to going home for Chirstmas and seeing the rest of my family, especially with a new baby on the way in the family any day now.

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