Since leaving University a year ago, I haven't seen my friend Kayleigh once! We spent many an hour in the cafes on campus mulling over the great and wonderful issues of life, complaining about work, and so on and so forth. It was a moment to put our work on hold and be silly or whatever we needed at the time. Naturally, I felt I needed to get together with her once more before moving back, so we met half way in London. Grabbing a Subway sandwich, and finding a nice space on the grass in St James Park, we chewed our sandwiches and "the cud" for a good few hours. In between, we had a visit from a pelican, people looking for the London Eye, and several tourists with cameras. The weather was perfect, with wispy clouds in the sky shading us occasionally from the sun shine. This weather seemed a perfect back drop for an ice cream, so after grabbing one from an ice cream vendor by the stream, we went and listened to a band of bag pipes who were playing in aid of charity for the homeless being collected by Morris dancers dressed like those from Mary Poppins! I will miss our little chats, but Kayleigh and I will simply have to catch up in a Tim Horton's in Montreal on a snowy day.
The Pelican!
He was very friendly
The bagpipers and morris dancers
The London Eye behind the Foreign and Common Wealth Office building
Buckingham Palace, the flag means she was in!
Me, in front of the Canada Gate!!
And, to continue on with this Canadian theme: Canada Geese!!
And finally, Kayleigh and me with the Palace behind.
No comments:
Post a Comment