Cambridge

Last Saturday we decided to basically make our own day trip by train. We decided to venture to Cambridge college and hope to take in some of the vast knowledge floating around there. It took us right at two hours from London to the Cambridge train station, and we hit the ground running. We walked into the center of town and met up with Kara's friend who lives right outside of London. We then walked into the city area and went into an archeology museum which was faciniating. They had items from the Roman civilization of London all the way to the Norman invasion and conquest of Great Britan.
After the museum we came across an area where there were a few resteraunts, then a rather large grassy flat area next to a small river that went all through the town. We decided to get sanwhiches from a small deli near there, and have lunch on the lawn. We were watchin the punting boats(similar to a Gondola) go by and noticed many people were just renting boats. We had talked about wanting to rent boats for the entire time we have been in London, so we found the place to rent boats and took advantage of the opportunity. We paid 3 pounds each for one hour of pure excitement. I got elected to "punt" the boat down the river while the girls sat in the middle section. I must say it is much much much harder than it looks. I have much more respect for Gondolas and Punters now. We eventually made it back but i think i managed to hit every boat on the water, and a few tree braches that hung over the water on the way back, and even managed to hit a duck....but that was his fault for not moving I think. I think i nearly flipped the boat about ten times as well, so it made for a rather eventful hour.
From there we went to see Pembroke college, which is one of the many many branches of Cambridge. I think we were told there around 19 colleges there that are all part of Cambridge. it was beautiful, but we quickly moved on to King's Chapel. This was arugeably the most beautiful Gothic building we have visited, one reason being that it still has 100% of its stain glass up, and most churches have about 1/3 of their glass remaining. King's Chapel is part of King's College (which for a good while was one of the top 3-4 colleges in the world...oxford and cambridge are in the 50s...). This college was by invite only to study there, so no need to apply. I have a feeling that the tuition would be pretty incredible too, i thought Samford had a beautiful campus, this place made you feel like you went back to the 15th century. In the chapel there choir was having their practice, and they sang so beautifully. I took a video of it and will try to post it, or give a link to where it will be. Cambridge was an excellent day trip though, and definately a worthwhile trip.

PS. sorry for the bad video quality. you get the idea though.