Horse Guards Parade - the changing of the guard

We went to the Horseguards parade where we saw the changing of the guard.
A man comes out and opens the gate behind the horses, new guards come out on their horses and they come in the back and take their place.

The horses stay on guard for one hour at a time.  The guards on foot stand out there for 2 hours.
A man got in trouble for patting a horse. The guard backed the horse into the box and yelled at the man. Then the guard on foot marched over and told the man to stop but he didn't listen. The horse guard pressed his alarm button and the other horse guard came over and stopped. It was exciting.

We saw 3 police horses waiting to escort horse guards. Their names were Kingsman, Lionheart and Justice. The white horse was the friendly one.

The changing of the guard is cool because we get to see the horses and the guards uniforms.

We went into the guards museum.  We saw what the stables look like. We saw the horses coming back into the stables after the parade.  Aidan got to try on a uniform.

 The helmet was very big and the boots were really long.

Holly did not want to.  They fed the horses hay.

After lunch we went to St Paul's Cathedral.

We climbed the stairs to the top of the dome.  There were 534 stairs. It was a long way.  Half way is the whispering gallery. Aidan went around one side of the dome and Holly stayed on the other side.  If you whisper into the wall you can hear it in the wall on the other side.

The stairs were a bit freaky and very narrow.  The top was very high.  There is a ball at the top that looks small but can fit 10 people in it, but you can't go into it. It is the little gold ball right at the top in the picture up above.

 When you are up the top you can look down through a little window in the floor and you can see the Cathedral floor down below. This is what you can see.