History in the Making

After all that I forgot about my favorite part, but its probably best because that was a long post. I apologize and applaud anyone who made it through.

Last Friday marked the 10th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana. My scavenger hunt group, happened to have an assignment right by Kensington Park, which is were Kensington Palace is, which was the home of Princess Diana. So we went by for a bit. I'm so glad we did.

Upon arriving at the palace it was packed with people celebrating the life the Princess had and the impact she made on this city, this country and the world. As we walked up to the palace there was a priest leading a prayer service, so we joined that and then continued on. We walked past the pictures, poems, notes, and flowers all upon the gates of Kensington Palace. Watching a precious little girl place some flowers near the gates, and walked into the palace courtyard. Where we noticed a table with people surrounding it, obviously we checked it out. At this table people were taking these metal flowers and putting a gold leafing on them, and then taking them and putting them on a metal rod, and taking that and putting it on a giant ball composed of lots of them, these balls of lots of golden flowers (10 in total) are then put in the yard around Kensington Palace as a gift and sign of remembrance and gratitude to the Princess of Wales. Then a lady asked if we'd like to make one, of course arts and crafts area always an option in my book.

They are a beautiful decoration, and it was amazing that I got to be part of something so special.

Here are a few pictures of the newspaper articles from that day (notice the man leading a prayer and the little girl placing flowers on the gate, sound familiar). I've got more so be looking at tiffanyjallen.shutterfly.com to check them and all of my pictures out.