Ambling Ramblings #7-More of London

I decided i needed to split my London posts in half as it was getting very long winded-this is what you get when you are an English and History major travelling some of the worlds most famous historic sites!
Our next day in London was much slower paced than our first day out on the town, but there was still no lazing about for us. We started our day with a rather long wander through Kensington Gardens, seeing the palace where Queen Victoria lived before she was crowned and other memorials to various royals from the past. Even though it is winter, the gardens were still quite lovely, and I did find a few roses and loved the trees and covered walkways that we could wend our way through! The grass was quite green and lovely and there were fountains, ponds, lakes, streams, moss covered bridges, monuments or buildings at every turn, making for wonderful photo opportunities! We then walked through Hyde Park (which is attached to Kensington Gardens) and found the famous Peter Pan statue which was smaller than I had expected it to be, but still worth finding. We then made our way back to Buckingham Palace to join the throngs waiting for the Changing of the Guard-I loved all the pomp and ceremony of the event which was well worth standing in the cold for an hour waiting! The marching band was my favorite part of it all, but i did enjoy the rest of it too! From the Palace we wandered the streets of London, spotting some well known places, before coming the the Victoria and Albert Museum-a place filled with hundreds of years of historical artifacts, from medieval paintings and religios relics to pieces from Queen Victoria's reign. Twas indeed any student of history's haven and I could easily have spent a week exploring it! I just find it so amazing to see things that people created or used or saw hundreds of years ago, that I can see now and to better understand where the world has come from and how people used to live.
Late in the afternoon, we braved the underground again to Baker Street to see the statue of the famous literary detectives Sherlock Holmes and then to go for a rather lengthy walk through another park to then catch a train back.
The next day was our final day in London (for this time at least) so we spent the morning at London Zoo before making our way to the international train station (making it only just in time! -we had cut it very fine to get there!!) to make our way to our next destination-the continent!