You can see the throngs of people all around the Palace to watch the change. We didn't realize there would be quite so many people there, or we would have arrived earlier.
The soldiers arriving for the ceremony.
The band arriving
Some more soldiers arriving. I don't know what the difference is between the red uniforms and the black. I'm guessing different branches of the military?
Everyone getting in postion for the ceremony.
The Band setting up. The change was quite different than what I was expecting. I thought there would be a lot of pomp and circumstance around the 2 guards actually switching out. We hadn't even realized it happened until we noticed the black suited guard where the red suited one had been. We had assumed he would be replaced by another red suited one, so we just kept waiting and watching.
There was a lot of marching around and things that we had no clue what it meant. We just kept snapping pictures.
You see the black suited guard in the box on the left, that's the new guard.
The band played a whole variety of music during the whole thing. They seemed to like American music and movie songs, too.
During all of this one of the doorways was business as usual. People came and went as if nothing was going on.
At one point I turned the camera around and snapped Daniel. You can see a reflection of the Palace in his sunglasses. We were pressed up against the fence the whole time. It was very crowded!
These guys marched past about 50 times or so. I'm not really sure what they were accomplishing. I would have been curious what their conversation was about. :)
The black suited guards preparing to leave after the change.
Here is a view of all the peoples hands and arms through the fence. It was a bit crazy.Well, now we can say that we have been at the Changing of the Guard, but you really didn't miss much.
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