Showing posts with label The War Memorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The War Memorial. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Day 326 - A brush with Danish Royalty


Today has been marked on my calendar for nearly a week as a potential 'Royal Spotting Day' with Princess Mary and Prince Frederik in town. Shane told me last week that they would be making a brief appearance at the War Memorial this afternoon - he even told me the exact time, it is great to have an insider with information!

The girls had been very excited about seeing a princess. Every time I mentioned the word princess, Olivia would call out Tinkerbell. I was waiting for her to call Princess Mary Tinkerbell this afternoon (but alas she didn't!)

So when the rain came this afternoon, it was not going to put a dampener on my day of royal spotting. I bundled the girls in the car with some flowers to hopefully give to her and stood in the soggy grass at The Australian War Memorial for 20 minutes before she arrived. I stood there with Shane who was the designated child carrier while I took the happy snaps along with a few other dedicated spotters. We thought that with the rain she wouldn't come around and meet and greet the crowd, but another 20 minutes later, we were happily proved wrong. She and Prince Frederik came around and greeted the crowd. When it was our turn to meet them we gave them the flowers from our girls and we had a brief chit chat. She is just gorgeous.

Nothing like a Royal encounter to leave you all warm and fuzzy.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Day 278 - Daddy's hat house

Ava and Daddy - Olivia was too busy with her
roadies from lunch!
We went and met Shane for lunch at work today. The girls were very excited, and all the way out all they kept saying was 'I see daddy have lunch' very cute. We took them in for a chat with his colleagues and then went over to the Terrace for lunch. On the way back to the car I overheard Olivia call The War Memorial 'Daddy's hat house'. It took me a while to work out where the hat came into it, but that lovely green dome is the hat. So now whenever we talk about Daddy's work she just has to remind us about the hat house!