Saturday night, I went to the Tower of London with a few Kiwi mates, and we went to the Ceremony of the Keys - which is where they lock up the tower at night.
It was pretty cool, we had a bit of a mini tour around the Tower, and then we went over to the Traitors Gate area, and then there was lots of marching and yelling orders at each other and more marching. It was all very ceremonious!
According to our guide, they have done it the same way every night, forever....pretty much. Or some massively huge number thats older than NZ!
The only time they have ever run late was in the Blitz in WWII and a bomb was dropped right by the White Tower (the oldest Building there, over 1000 years old....cray cray!) and a wall was strategically placed (aka in the right place) and the soliders were just blown to the side. But all alive!
The ceremony was completed, just 10 minutes late haha.
There were a whole lot of kids with us, who asked some hilairous questions (highlight - when the guards started marching towards us, one little girl of about 8 whispered loudly "are they going to kill us?) so that took a while, but we got some interesting facts, which I'm sure will come in handy for Trivial Pursuit or a Pub Quiz in the future!
Anyway, that was that. Dad's (hopefully) making the photos from outside the tower a bit more of something to look at...you're not allowed to take photos inside of the ceremony. But I took pics outside!!
So yeah, it was fun. I then went to my friends birthday drinks and got home around 1am...ouch!!
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