Ridgeway Trip XVI: To Westminster!
Teresa had to go home, which was a bummer. Her flight was pretty early and she intelligently decided to get an Uber at 5:00 am rather than try to take the Tube on her own with a heavy suitcase and a bum ankle. She got there and her plane was canceled or something, but she got a non-stop flight home and only had to sit around for 4 hours or so, so not bad. We were up early to get to Westminster Abbey as soon as possible. Kim had not been since she was a little girl, so she wanted to see it, and I wanted to see the new triforium gallery, and of course to say hi to my floor.* There were hordes of people, but we had tickets and so got in pretty easily.** Goodness but Westminster is packed full of monuments. It's so full of monuments you can't see the actual church. You spend all your time looking at the floor or at the statues all around. The first thing we saw was the scientist section, with Newton, Kepler, and Hawking, plus many ...