Today, our last full day in England, we decided to take a short trip to see the Queen. Admittedly she wasn’t home, but we did the day in Windsor anyway.

Windsor is a pretty impressive castle and it is hard, to an American at least, envisioning anyone actually living there. The gardens are too perfectly manicured

The lawns are too well laid out

(if a little brown in spots) and the facade was too story book perfect

But, as some small things show, there are people who live there.

We wandered the outside and took in the views

then wandered through the state rooms (where no photography was allowed). We also went through St. George’s Chapel, which would have been impressive except we were in St. Paul’s yesterday.

It was a nice visit, and we even managed to see a small changing of the guard.

For our last day, it was wonderful. Back home tomorrow and I am more than ready to see my furry babies.