Tuesday (June 2, 2009) wasn't too busy either we all met up to tour Westminster Abby with our guide Marc Belben. A little background on Westminster...

It is the greatest known church in the world, there are over 3,000 people buried there today and the Abby used to be Catholic until the 1500's when King Henry the 8th separated the church and crown. What I thought was pretty cool was that there is a tomb for an unknown British warrior like they have in Paris as well as the U.S. It is a tomb that represents all the lives lost during WWI and it is lined with red poppies which symbolize blood shed and war.

Probably one of the greatest tombs was not a tomb at all but a commemoration to Winston Churchill who said when he became Prime Minister during WWII was "I have nothing to offer but blood, sweat, toil and tears".

Another crazy fact I learned was that out of everyone buried in the Abby there is only one who is buried vertical, everyone else is horizontal. That person was a man by the name of Ben Johnson who was a student of Westminster and a partisan of Shakespeare. When he dies he could only afford so much space within the Abby so he was buried vertical as opposed to everyone else buried there.

I liked this trip because I got to see graves of so many famous historical people that have made such a big difference in our lives and to not realize what they did for generations to come until then was a big awakening and made me want to go home and research all of the people further just to know what went on in their lives. It was cool seeing a church with so much history within the walls too because we have nothing even remotely close to this in the States.