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For years, we've seen pictures from this thing called Corgi Beach Day. Somehow, we've never been able to go to one until today. It was a great time, and apparently there were 634 corgis there!

A lot of sniffing.

Checking out some corgi puppies.

There were brown corgis.

There were black and white corgis.

Shark corgis.

Some tri-color corgis.

And, Winston the white corgi.

Then Sheldon met some that were not corgis.

Sheldon kept hanging out with these corgis...

Then I realized he looked like a dog in love, sort of.

Not sure how I got this picture of Sheldon in the water...

Usually, he was running away from it..

Sheldon was pretty happy to find some shade, but note, these are NOT our seats.

Some corgis cooled down by getting buried in sand.

Some corgis dug a hole near us, then Sheldon sat in their work.

A sign that Sheldon was ready to go home.

And then he had to be carried.

I guess we didn't time things too well because when we went to Buckingham Palace yesterday, we saw a sign that said the next Changing of the Guard would be the following day. And so, here we are again at Buckingham Palace, but for the Changing of the Guard.

If you go to see the Changing of the Guard, don't be fooled by all the people crowded around, facing the street area that we're facing in this picture. Even though there's people waiting in the far reaches, if you're gonna wait, you still want to be near the Palace gates because that's where all the action actually happens. Here on the street, you get some good views, but only when they march in and out of the Palace. And, as you can imagine, that only happens once at the beginning, and once at the end.

Not sure exactly what happens inside the Palace gates, but it's some combination of music and marching back and forth.

I think they're "Changing" the Guard.

The music...

The Queen's Guard

After the Changing of the Guard, we took another trip to Borough Market. Couldn't get enough of those pies, so we went for 2 more.

One of most popular bakeries in London is Konditor and Cook, and while there are several locations, one is conveniently located across the street from the Borough Market.

I actually don't remember all the things we got, but I would say you can't go wrong picking one of their sponge cakes.

We then ventured off to the British Museum.

I actually thought this was a museum focused on British history and cool British stuff. It wasn't a pretty neat museum, but not specific to Great Britain. It had something from a variety of countries.

A piece of the Rosetta Stone

Some sort of structure from Greece haha.

I don't remember exactly what structure this is above, but it was pretty cool because they basically took a whole bunch of chunks from the place and reassembled it. Of course, the interpretation or whether or not this is an accurate reconstruction is still up for debate.

Nice museum facility...

I don't know if I'd recommend spending time visiting this museum. It must have some cool artifacts, but nothing stood out too much to me. I think you can pass this up on a visit to London.

From here, we went to Covent Market. It's not quite the same as Borough that is really focused on food. Covent Market is basically like a mall, a 3rd street promenade type - an outdoor shopping area with common name brands we recognize in America.

However, one of the notable places here for us was Ben's Cookies.