Last Night of the Proms

Hello! We are a bit tired as we've just got back from a quick trip to London to attend the Last Night of the Proms in Hype Park! It was fantastic of course but tiring! Its unfortunate that the event takes place in September really, otherwise I could spend a bit more time in London but work commitments mean that we travel on a Saturday morning and then return the next morning. We did have lots of fun though and the weather was glorious, in fact I think I only just escaped being sun burnt.

We arrived at Hyde Park at around 3:30pm and joined the queues which didn't take too long fortunately because I think it must have been in the high 20s yesterday and we were stood directly in the heat and crammed together like cattle! Once we got in though things were much more comfortable thankfully..

Spot the men in suits? They must have been BAKING! They did amuse us though.

While we were waiting for the introductory acts to start (Blues/Country/Jazz/Abba/Beatles - all brilliant!) we managed to take a couple of family portraits 'us' style...

This is my favourite! 

Bit sunny but that's just how it was!

The guys in suits were later joined by these rather well dressed individuals who made us all smile...

And we also found some fellow welsh sat behind us...

Look at the sky! It was beautiful! 

In part two we were entertained by Il Divo (better than I thought to be honest), London Community Gospel Choir (again, not bad!) and then Kylie. Kylie was good, you can't say she wasn't, but she wasn't really upbeat and even churned out a slow version of 'I should be so Lucky' so a bit disappointing really compared to everyone else that really got the crowd up and dancing. She did do the 'The Locomotion' though and got half of Hyde Park doing this...

Bear in mind that plenty of people had had rather a lot of alcohol by this point so it was rather amusing.

So the evening ended, of course, with a live link to the Albert Hall for the traditional bits. Lots of bobbing up and down, flag waving, no one knowing the words to God Save the Queen etc etc but all good. We met Americans, Canadians, Swedes amongst others and right at the end Child No.#3 was handed our kilted friend's big flag to hold!...he was so pleased!  Here are some more pics of the evening...

 

Finally all 40,000 of us piled out of Hyde Park at nearly 11pm, all rather jolly of course. Needless the say the tube stations couldn't cope so that only provided further opportunity for Rule Britannia signing while we waiting to be let into the ticket area. Was all rather patriotic! Even the policeman guarding the entrance couldn't keep a straight face entirely during that.

We finally made it back to the hotel at around midnight, exhausted. The nest have already requested we return next year!