Mom was very excited that we got tickets to see Trooping the Colour, well at least they were tickets to the official dress rehearsal, The Colonel’s review. Our tickets said that we must dress smart so we wore dresses instead of slacks and I even put on makeup. This didn’t help much because when we got there people were walking around in big summer hats and REALLY smart clothes. Luckily there were also the group of people who arrived in slacks, jeans, trainers etc. So we decided we were smart enough.
We found our seats and were addressed by a dude with a black fluffy hat, also had a bit of white and green fluffy stuff sticking out the side which we later found out meant that he was from the Welsh brigade. He showed us to our seats, which were 3 rows from the front.
While we were taking pics of our usher dude everyone started going “Ahhh…” and started standing up and pointing. So being the curious people we are, mom and I also had a look. We saw out in the distance a LITTLE boy all dressed up in the guard suit with a big fluffy hat. We had to include a pic even though the quality is not the best because of the distance.
One of the funny things during the entire parade was there are certain times that you are supposed to stand, out of respect or something. The problem is that we didn’t know when this was and in fact it seemed the majority of people didn’t really know when to stand. So there we all were standing and sitting like jack in the boxes not really knowing what we were doing. My favourite was standing for the Queen’s carriage, note I say the Queen’s carriage and not the Queen, it was only the dress rehearsal so the carriage was empty. 
After the parade we took a stroll to the long line of flags that were flying down the street where we had spotted the SA flag – obviously we wanted a pic. It must have been our lucky day because underneath the flag was a gaggle of bobbies, and one of them was even kind enough to salute our flag. There were two other bobbies close by who were laughing at the others so mom said we had to get a pic of them too – quite cute I thought.
The rest of our pics were from our walk back to the station.
^ Mom making a "phone call"
^ Mom with "Women of WW 2 monument behind her
^ Me with some soldier dude
^ WW2 monument but notice the EXTRA long bus in the background.
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Glad you included the pic of the little boy. That is very cute
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