The Lord Mayor!

Sunday 6th of July

Righto. So just had a quiet day today. The only tourist thing we did was go to a service at Westminster abbey. It turned out to be the annual Civic service or something and we got to see the Lord Mayor of Westminster (which is actually a woman so shouldn't it be Lady or something (gem says no)). We didn't get too much of a look at the abbey itself because we were only there for the service and had to stay in the nave (as we weren't nearly important enough to be up the front (we're just plebs)). We'll come back sometime later as proper tourists and get a tour which is apparently really good.

It rained after that so we didn't do any more sightseeing. But we did see some people trying to break the Guinness world record for the most people doing a Bollywood dance in Trafalgar square (and they did break it despite the rain)

Instead we went and visited my cousin Yean Hong and his wee baby. It was really nice to be normal people again instead of crazy annoying tourists. Baby was really cute and Gem was gushing as normal. It was really nice to meet Julian for the first time and spend time with family (i haven't seen Yean Hong for a decade).

Over and out