I LOVED today! It was fantastic! We went to Cambridge and spent almost the whole day there. It was the coolest place and I absolutely loved our tour guide. Her name was Sally and she was the cutest little old lady and was just so enthusiastic and full of energy. She had the funniest stories and she was always just so happy and excited all of the time that I didn't even notice I was tired (until we went into the museum and that was still cool but I had a hard time keeping my eyes open).
This was one of the funny things she told us about. One time some of the students got a car up on a roof of one of the buildings on campus with ropes and pulleys and it took a week for people to figure out how to get it back down. Cambridge has a lot of way fun traditions and stuff. I liked it a lot. It was probably the best tour I've ever had! Before the tour we went shopping around at a nearby mall and farmers market, but we didn’t find anything. Our tour began with King’s College Chapel which was super gorgeous.
It hasn’t been altered at all since Henry VIII finished it off which I thought was pretty cool. It had gorgeous stained glass windows and fan vaulting inside which I loved. A lot of the campus is in gothic style, with pointed windows and flying buttresses. It’s was kinda weird to be on a college campus that’s older than our country. We went a couple of other places around campus and then they took us to a little pub for lunch.
This pub has been around forever and Shakespeare and a bunch of other famous people used to eat and hang out there so that was cool. Shakespeare even performed plays here back in the day.
The ceiling inside the pub is signed by a bunch of famous and non-famous people in wax and lipstic. Because it's historic, it is now under a protection law and can never be torn down.
Waiting for our food in the pub
We decided to try fish and chips and I was expecting it to be gross but I actually really liked it. After lunch we went to H&M and I bought some shirts. I’m so sick of my clothes! Then we headed over to the Fritzwilliam museum. It was pretty cool—they had lots of porcelain, an Egyptian section, and a bunch of paintings and stuff up there. I probably wouldn’t have been as interested if our tour guide wasn’t there telling us about all of it. I did have a hard time staying awake but we weren’t in there for very long so that was good. My favorite part was that there was a Swiss Army/pocket knife from the time of the Romans. Cool eh? After the museum we went punting on the river. Punting is kind of like a gondola ride, which was great because I didn’t do a gondola ride in Venice. They have flat-bottom boats and someone stands on the back and pushes the boat along with a pole. It was way fun and really pretty. It was pouring rain walking there from the museum but it cleared up and got sunny just before we got on the boat so that was nice. I totally fell down the stairs because they were wet! Haha. I caught myself so it didn’t hurt at all, but we laughed for like five minutes and then I was scared to walk down them after that. My ankle still hurts from falling down the stairs at the forum, so I don’t really know what’s up with that. Maybe I’ll have to have that checked when I get home cuz it’s been almost a month.
This was the dock where we boarded our punting boat. Punting was just so great! We saw a bunch of sites form the Harry Potter movie and our punter (the guy who was maneuvering the boat), was way cute and he goes to Oxford. I just love listening to people’s accents here. It makes me love EVERYONE! Haha. Afterwards we bought some marvelous chocolates at a little store and caught the train back to London.
At the train station we found platform 9 ¾ (for all those Harry Potter fans) and took pictures. For the rest of the night we mostly finished up our patterns and I went on a short little jog with Ashley.
This was one of the funny things she told us about. One time some of the students got a car up on a roof of one of the buildings on campus with ropes and pulleys and it took a week for people to figure out how to get it back down. Cambridge has a lot of way fun traditions and stuff. I liked it a lot. It was probably the best tour I've ever had! Before the tour we went shopping around at a nearby mall and farmers market, but we didn’t find anything. Our tour began with King’s College Chapel which was super gorgeous. 
It hasn’t been altered at all since Henry VIII finished it off which I thought was pretty cool. It had gorgeous stained glass windows and fan vaulting inside which I loved. A lot of the campus is in gothic style, with pointed windows and flying buttresses. It’s was kinda weird to be on a college campus that’s older than our country. We went a couple of other places around campus and then they took us to a little pub for lunch. 
This pub has been around forever and Shakespeare and a bunch of other famous people used to eat and hang out there so that was cool. Shakespeare even performed plays here back in the day. 
The ceiling inside the pub is signed by a bunch of famous and non-famous people in wax and lipstic. Because it's historic, it is now under a protection law and can never be torn down. 
Waiting for our food in the pub
We decided to try fish and chips and I was expecting it to be gross but I actually really liked it. After lunch we went to H&M and I bought some shirts. I’m so sick of my clothes! Then we headed over to the Fritzwilliam museum. It was pretty cool—they had lots of porcelain, an Egyptian section, and a bunch of paintings and stuff up there. I probably wouldn’t have been as interested if our tour guide wasn’t there telling us about all of it. I did have a hard time staying awake but we weren’t in there for very long so that was good. My favorite part was that there was a Swiss Army/pocket knife from the time of the Romans. Cool eh? After the museum we went punting on the river. Punting is kind of like a gondola ride, which was great because I didn’t do a gondola ride in Venice. They have flat-bottom boats and someone stands on the back and pushes the boat along with a pole. It was way fun and really pretty. It was pouring rain walking there from the museum but it cleared up and got sunny just before we got on the boat so that was nice. I totally fell down the stairs because they were wet! Haha. I caught myself so it didn’t hurt at all, but we laughed for like five minutes and then I was scared to walk down them after that. My ankle still hurts from falling down the stairs at the forum, so I don’t really know what’s up with that. Maybe I’ll have to have that checked when I get home cuz it’s been almost a month. 
This was the dock where we boarded our punting boat. Punting was just so great! We saw a bunch of sites form the Harry Potter movie and our punter (the guy who was maneuvering the boat), was way cute and he goes to Oxford. I just love listening to people’s accents here. It makes me love EVERYONE! Haha. Afterwards we bought some marvelous chocolates at a little store and caught the train back to London. 
At the train station we found platform 9 ¾ (for all those Harry Potter fans) and took pictures. For the rest of the night we mostly finished up our patterns and I went on a short little jog with Ashley.
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