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