Week in Review
Since Katherine’s graduation, we wrapped up a few things around the house and for work, packed some suitcases, and took off for our first real family vacation in almost three years. We had originally planned for two weeks by rail across the country into the national parks of the southwest (Grand Canyon, Moab, Arches, etc.). That plan was scrapped when Biden extended the already-abandoned-by-most-people mask mandate. Two weeks on a train wearing a mask was just more than any of us were willing to tolerate. On to Plan B.
Plan B, fully endorsed by the entire family, was England (mostly London) and Ireland. We have been in London almost a week. Here are some of the highlights.
The Eye
China Town Gate (we had some very authentic Chinese food here)
Big Ben
Westminster Palace and Abbey (this is the Abbey)
Buckingham Palace (we couldn’t get very close because they are still deconstructing from the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee which ended last week)
Bank of England/finance district
St. Paul’s Cathedral (it took all my willpower to not break out in song in those wonderful acoustics)
Marble Arch
Princess Diana Memorial Park
Greenwich (and the time meridian)
Tower Bridge (yes, that’s me standing on a glass floor above the Thames)
Trafalger Square (we couldn’t resist a picture of the graduate standing under a huge pile of ice cream)
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