Hampton Court Palace

Today Amber, Wendy, and I went to Hampton Court Palace, which I think is the biggest palace I've ever been to. It was huge and it took pretty much the entire day to see everything we wanted to see! Hampton Court Palace's residents included: Henry VIII and his various wives, William III (his wife, Mary was going to live here also but died before her apartments were finished), George II and his wife Caroline, and others (those were the main ones). We got to see all these people's rooms and the kitchen set up as it was in Tudor times. It was a really interesting tour, and I would definitely suggest it if you're around London one day (it's about a 20-30 minute train ride). There were beautiful gardens outside and even a hedge maze (we got lost for a while, it was very amusing!).

Here are a few pictures so you can get a feel for the grandure of the palace!

Hampton Court Palace (I was very impressed at how good the Union Jack looked in this picture!)

The back or side of Hampton Court Palace and one of the fountains (there was a mama duck with little baby ducks on the side of the fountain...adorable!)

Okay, this kind of looks like a postcard, but I swear I took this picture...it was really that pretty (and the sky was extremely blue for being rainy all day)

A "secret" garden :)

The hedge maze (we figured out there wasn't really an exit - they labeled the actual exit "fast track exit" or something like that so we figured there was another one, but after walking around for a while we reached the entrance and asked the workers who said that was the only exit other than the entrance...tricky!)

Pretty yellow roses in one of the palace's gardens

Roses on the brick wall

Yellow lilies (?)...I don't really know flowers, but I like these if that means anything

The tunnel of greenery...I don't remember the official name for it

Me in the hedge maze!