F1 Parade thing around London

July 6, An F1 Parade taking place... Sean and I will be down in London for this.  Anyone else attending?

I'm seriously thinking about it - I have to work this coming weekend and didn't find out until very recently that I could have taken Sunday off...but now there are no tickets left for the GP.

I live in Derby so I could drive down to a suburban rail station and take the train in to avoid the traffic, then take it back out when it's done.

BUT - if it's just a parade as I've been reading the past couple of days (instead of a demo at a somewhat high speed) I don't know if it will be worth it to go...

My husband is a HUGE FAN OF F1. 

(He flew to NY on a Friday a couple of weeks agao.  Plane was delayed at Heathrow for four hours finally got to JFK at 4 am, jumped in a taxi to LGA cancelling hotel reservations because it was a mute point, next flight was 6:30 am. Took a pseudo shower (or a typical NY/PR shower)  in the men's restroom, met my BF's husband at LGA from there flew to Indy for race, flew back Monday AM - same routine but backtracked.  All this just to watch M. Schumacker or whatever his name is win AGAIN and to see his McClaren lose AGAIN!! ) and to be overrun by large masses of the French at Morton's.  Which he said was quite funny when watching a couple of the "good ol boys" talking F1 with the Frechmen vs. NASCAR. 

So what do you think??    Yes, I'm being sucker-punched into going.  I'm a NASCAR girl by birth (dad use to race dragsters.  Don't know how much know about stockcar/dragsters racing but he raced many times against Shirley Muldowney), so this F1 ain't my cup of tea.  But I feel bad because Glen would watch it all by himself and being the perfect wife  I can't let him do that.  So I agreed with the best kind of dinner afterwards - RESERVATIONS baby!!  RESERVATIONS!!

What time you leaving?  I have no clue what time it starts.  All I know is that I have to be at my  husband's office by 5 pm.  He works around the corner from Regent Street.

DING DING DING!!!

I'll be there!!!!

Autograph "booth" set up for Hanover Gardens

We went.. was a good time.  We didn't see much, but the sound alone was amazing.  Sean works in F1, so he felt a bit left out being on the spectator side of the fence.   We spent most of the time in Hanover Square watching it on the videoscreen, before heading to the route itself to try to get a glimpse.  Haha, no chance.  I could not believe the amount of people there.  Honestly.. I've never seen so many people in all my life.  People hanging off buildings and stood on top of traffic lights.  Standing on each other and on top of cars.  Just, EVERYWHERE.  I walked right by Luca Badoer (the Ferrari test driver) and actually almost physically bumped into him.  We were stood there at the starting position when Coulthard came up to sign autographs.   I don't really get star-struck, and Sean knows most of them from work.. so we were actually 2 of the calmer ones there.  No climbing onto buildings to get a glimpse for us.  Still.. it was fun -- the 9 hours spent on trains yesterday, not so much.