Big Bears!

On the 2nd floor of Harrods, in the souvenir section, right by the lifts are these MASSIVE BEARS - one is a Bobby, one is a Beefeater, one is a Highland Scotsman, one is a Palace Guard and the last one was a Harrods Doorman! They were so adorable, and actually for sale, but for about 2000 pounds! I loved them and had my photo with all of them!

A giant wedding cake

Harrods also had this most amazing wedding cake, which featured the staff outfits, and a massive fondant replica of the building. It was all shiny and amazing. I figured it probably wasn't edible, but it was made to look like it - it was so fab!

Wedding in the Windows

After Westminster Abbey, we went for a little bit of shopping, and their windows are all made up to reflect the upcoming Royal Wedding. They had all this pretty china, and pillows, wedding dresses and a giant royal wedding invite. The windows were so pretty, and everyone was stopping and taking photos!

Lincoln in London

Near the Abbey is this statue of Lincoln. I really had no clue why a statue of an American President would be in London, so I had to go and look it up on Wikipedia. Apparently it is a copy of the 1887 Standing Lincoln in Chicago, and there is another one at Lincoln's Tomb in Springfield, Illinois! So it is quite interesting I suppose, but it is still quite weird to see this here in London. There are lots of statues in London, I suppose a lot of tourists see it and go "What?"

Westminster Abbey from a different Angle

Last time I visited Westminster Abbey, I only visited the one side, but this time we went to the other doors (North Doors maybe?) and took a photo of the sun shining on it. It was these doors that Kate (now Princess Catherine) walked through at the wedding Friday, so it was quite cool that we were there the day before! I really like the sun glinting off the stone, it's not often I get a good photo like this!

Royal Wedding Preparations

On Thursday I took the train down to London to watch the Royal Wedding, which was on the Friday. Mike was working so I met up with Dave, who I know from Bristol and we went to explore the area around Westminster Abbey, which was filled with crazies camped out for days for the prime spot to watch the wedding. We made it onto several news stations backdrops that evening - even the 6pm BBC News!

A cake of a thousand hours

Easter also happened to be Kevin's birthday, and we decided to make him a cake. Rather, my mother picked out the hardest recipe she could find and asked me to make it - it was a custard, orange liquer, strawberry jam type cake, complete with lady finger edging. Mike did the edging, and that took tons of precision, and I did the middle, but by golly it took us ages! I made the custard from scratch and everything! I was so pleased with it, I had to take a photo!