days spent in the UK: 23
hours spent on a plane getting to London Heathrow: 10.5
number of countries visited: 3. england, scotland, wales
number of cities visited: 12 (london, bath, salisbury, malvern, worcester, shropshire, cardiff, edinburgh, falkirk, glasgow, stirling, york, hampton court)
number of cathedrals toured: 5 (bath abbey, salisbury cathedral, worcester cathedral, york minster, westminster)
number of castles toured: 5 (warwick castle, cardiff castle, edinburgh castle, stirling castle, hampton court palace)
temperature of London when leaving for home: 7 degrees Celsius.
temperature of LAX upon arriving home: 81 degrees Fahrenheit.
number of hats lost during trip: 2
number of meals taken at mcdonalds or burger king: 4
… at a pub: 1
… at an iguana’s: 2
… at relatives: I don’t think we stopped eating when we were with our relatives. it should actually be
“number of days of continuous feeding while visiting relatives”: 3
amount of chocolate consumed: approximately 2 pounds.
age in months of cousin’s new son: 4
number of new immediate family relations by cousin’s marriage: 20 (oh gosh!)
hours to be spent correcting red eye effect from pictures taken of cousin’s british, blue-eyed in-laws: 2
approximate number of pictures taken during trip: 481
…of these which are of airline food: 6
number of viewings of “lord of the rings: the two towers”: 2 (once in bath, once in london, in europe’s largest cinema)
pictures taken with ali g: none. :(
hours spent in a computer lab: 10 (all during the first week or so of the trip.)
number of cups of tea or coffee or water consumed daily: 10
average number of bathroom trips per day: 6
cost of using “the loo” at a train station: 20 pence
value of a clean “loo”: priceless!
number of stairs at russell square station: 172
value of 3 weeks out of Los Angeles: beyond the measure of words.