European Vacation Memory

A couple of weeks ago, my sister uploaded to my photo account the pics she took from when my mom and I went to visit her in Europe last year.

I was looking through them the other night and ran across a couple that made me laugh that I had forgotten about.

The setting....Buckingham Palace.

Well, kind of. Actually, we were walking away from Buckingham Palace and were passing by some sort of gated service entrance? or parking lot? or something that didn't really look "that" special but was still on BP property.

Anyway, there were two guards guarding this very important parking lot.

Lindsay said, "OHHH!! We can't leave without y'all having your pictures made with the guards!"

So, we timidly walk over to the ARMED guards and my mom and I flank either side of one of the guards.

Lindsay snaps this pic (from several feet away).

Then, she rolls her eyes at me and says, "Can you move in a little closer?"

And I said, "NO! He's got a gun! With a sharp knife at the end!"

And then, through clinched teeth, the guard said, "I won't bite." And then he smiled.

Then he said, "Don't tell anyone I spoke."

So, I moved a few inches closer. See?

Yep! We made a BP guard SMILE and TALK!

Obnoxious Americans 1--BP guard 0

On second thought, maybe that's why he was guarding the spare parking lot and not the Queen Mum.