The Queen's Life Guard

Today, Middle Son had a  home education group visit to the Cabinet War Rooms which fitted in perfectly with the Second World War history that he has been doing this term.

I knew that Miss Belle and Mr Exuberance were going to find this less interesting so decided to visit Horseguards Parade which is two minutes walk from the Cabinet War Rooms.

 To make this more relevant, this week, we read Madeline in London

and AA Milne's famous poem Buckingham Palace.

Rather to my surprise, we managed to catch changing of the guard.

The old guard -just as in Madeline

Well, isn't it lovely-they're standing sentry

Right here at the Whitehall entry.

The changing of the guard

The new guard

and the changing guards parading. The Life Guards are on the horses with their backs to the camera. Difficult to run round to get a better view with children in tow.

The Blues and Royals are on the opposite side.

We had meant to walk to the entrance of Buckingham Palace but a playground, within site of the Palace, won. A bitter wind stopped too much further exploring-still the the children were excited to see the guards and will, I hope, remember that, not the cold.

On our way home, we walked through Trafalgar Square and saw the Norwegian Christmas Tree.

They're changing the guard at Buckingham Palace-

Christopher Robin went down with Alice.

"Do you think the King knows all about me?"

"Sure to, dear, but its time for tea,"

                                                     Says Alice.

This is linked to the weekly wrap up at Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers, to the Field Trip blog hop and to Fantastic Foto Fieldtrips.