❤ Vivi : A Design Diary ❤: MINOR TRIP

Heading to Buckingham Palace at Green Park station to see the Change of Guard Ceremony. We were there earlier in order to get a nice position to witness the whole process of the ceremony. We were asked to meet at a place after the ceremony. So, me and Nano decided to book at a place nearby the gate first before the ceremony starts at 11.30am.

The Buckingham Palace. There's a ENGLAND flag on top of it.

Feel royalty huh looking at the big gate

The place is getting crowded as the time passed. Both of us standing close to each other to prevent pickpockets and prevent from getting lost in the crowd. There are so many tourists holding cameras and eager to watch the ceremony, yet they keep on pushing forward to approach the gate. I feel like I am being sandwiched at middle >.< That's not a good feeling.

The Process of Changing Guards begins with a band parade.

These team of guards are known as Queen's Guard

They are performing music instruments on the street.

Police riding on a a sexy horse.

As I said you can see Cameras everywhere.

I feel I am too short to witness the whole process of ceremony. I was trying so hard to stand on my tiptoes but still too many tall peoples and cameras blocking my vision. Ends up not much photos I have captured. Was feeling a bit pissed off at that moment. *sigh*

After this, our next station is Discovery Children's Story Centre at Stratford as our seniors are using that building as case study for their assignment. The storybook centre is for children of aged 1 to 11. It is a play and learning centre for the kids to have fun meanwhile gaining knowledge for growing purposes. The spaces are specially designed for the kids. Even the furniture are designed based on kids' anthropometry. The theme for the interior design is funky where you can see colourful wall arts and fancy decorations.

Main Entrance of the Centre. It's designed to look like a castle with flags :)

Children Reading Area and Reception Counter in my favourite PINK color !

Kids' Costumes Area

The person-in-charged of directing us brought us to the courtyard and brief us more information about the center. She is kind enough to answer all of the questions we have asked about the center. Since the center is only open for those with children of aged 0 to 12, so we are not allowed to go up to the highest floor.

Outdoor Playground

Colourful decorative interior spaces mainly designed for kids

We went a leisure walk at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park after visiting Children's story centre. The park is a relaxing place surrounded with greenery grass and there is a clean river with odourless smell. ( As you know the rivers in Malaysia are so dirty and smelly because of the pollution ). The facades there look so abstract and yet futuristic.

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Greenery and beautiful flowers surrounded that area

Have a walk around that area while I was looking for public water closet.

The Olympic Park Stadium which is currently under reconstruction

ARCELORMITTAL ORBIT ? Hmm... sounds interesting.

ARCELORMITTAL ORBIT
an observation tower with 114m height.
(This is the most strangest building I have seen as the staircase are curved upward like a snake crawling up and it looked like a Roller Coaster for me WOW )

Rushing back to London City Centre to see the famous Big Ben and The Eye of London. The Big Ben is actually the Great Bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster. I can feel how holiness and how spectacular the building is by standing in front of it. I can feel how small I am standing right in front of it. It is really a HUGE clock that would rings every hour. " dong dong dong dong ". The beautiful sky during the evening has touched up the building so I am able to capture a nice memorable photo of it :)