A day in the sun!

Today was the first day since we arrived that we have seen the sun for longer than 15 minutes. It was really nice because it was our fancy dress day and all the girls were in dresses. Today was a long but very exciting day for us. First we got to go behind the gates of Downing street and see the residence of the Prime Minister.

The police for the residence to the Prime Minister and I

From there we went to the Buckingham Palace, where we got to go behind the gate into the fareham court  to watch the switching of the guards ceremony. This was so exciting because we got to behind the gates like we were very important people, not very many people are allowed past the gate. The police officers that took us behind the gates said they have never even been behind the gate before.We weren't allowed to take pictures behind the gate so I could not get any of the switching of the guards.

The gate to the Buckingham Palace

After Buckingham Palace we then went to the New Scotland Yard. This is the new headquarters of the Metropolitan Police. The officers gave us a speech about their overview of some of the things they deal with over there. The main things they did last year was the Olympics and the Tour De France. This big events are so big that they don't even have enough transportation for all the officers. On top of that they have to feed all them. At the peak of the Olympics there was 12,500 police officers on duty.  

At the end of the presentation Richard, the officer who has been with our group for a few days gave us each a commemorative Olympic certificate. The officers were all given one, but they had a few extra and we were lucky enough to get them!