April First

We all went for a walk today in Regent's Park because it was such a beautiful day. The most beautiful part was the Queen's Royal Rose Garden. There was this huge fountain right in the middle where everyone was hanging out. There was a little girl that ran up and handed me a flower. While I was distracted one of the girls thought it would be funny to whack me into the fountain. I was furious as I"m soaking wet in this gross fountain water and to make manners worse, it was really really slippery and the walls of it were rounded and hard to get a steady footing. The next thing I know the park police come over in their funny uniforms and I'm thinking "wow that's a lot of police somebody must have done something really wrong." Apparently it is very illegal to swim in the fountain in the royal park, because they were not happy. I tried to explain what happened, but the girls were gone and they just weren't buying it. It didn't get better either because once they realized I was holing a flower I was in bigger trouble. Its also an offense to pick any flowers in the Queen's Royal garden. They just kept asking me if I was trying to disrespect the Queen (which is the worst thing you could do here) and all I'm thinking is "I've never even met the woman?" They took me down the street to the Police station for question to make sure I wasn't an anarchist trying to bring down England's government. After explaining that I wasn't even sure what a monarchy was, and ensuring them that I fully supported the Royal family, they let me go with a warning. I avoided the park on the way home and grew more and more angry as I could still feel my socks squish when I walked. I came across the Speaker's corner where people were preaching all their beliefs. I ran into some kids from Regent's there. One of the boys was explaining that there are only three rules at speakers corner... you can't say anything to cause riots, you can't say anything false that will cause panic (like Fire!) and lastly, you cannot say anything against the Queen. So i started to tell him what happened and how I was almost an enemy of England because I'm apparently against the Queen. Sure enough, there was a tap on my shoulder and an angry looking man who just asked "What did you just say?" and I said, happy April Fool's day.
I really did go for a walk in the park and it was really quite the adventure, but I went by myself and I'll tell you all about it later when I'm in a more truthful mood. =) Love, Jenna the jokester <3