Our ROYAL Visit

Maddie and I flew to Winnipeg this weekend and Grandma B met us there.  We stayed with my mom's good friend, Denise (aka Ms. W to Maddie)  If you haven't heard, Queen Elizabeth was in town for the day.

We started the day with our first glimpse of QEII at the airport.  There was hardly anyone there so we had a really good view of her through her car window as she drove by.  I managed, in my excitement to get a fantastic shot of Denise's purse and a couple of the ground.  Super.

After lunch on our own (didn't receive a royal invite) we went downtown to for another glimpse.  It was all very fancy, with white rope marking things off, big white tents with free lemonade.  Girl Guides handed out delicious cookies (not the regular GG cookies, thank you very much).

And let me tell you, the Queen is nothing if she isn't punctual!  Everything happened exactly when she said it would.  And thank you for that b/c it was so hot we couldn't have handled waiting a minute longer.

We didn't get the best location (although Denise managed to wiggle in quite close, and she has some fantastic shots).  But, as The Queen was driving by (and we were very close to her then) she looked right at Maddie, smiled and waved!  Even Maddie was excited about that.