Correction!

Cambridge is NOT where Alice had her adventures in Wonderland (a.k.a., where Lewis Carroll wrote). It was Oxford. I was sorely mistaken.

Nevertheless, I had a good time in Cambridge. First of all, Cambridge is OLD. Some of the buildings date back to the 1300s. Plus, there were lots of allusions to Henry VIII during our tour, so I was pleased since I am obsessed with the show "The Tudors." At some points when I was there I wished I had gone to a school like Cambridge...but then I remembered how much I love my city life. Cambridge was nice for a day but I don't know if I could live there for my entire college career. Not that they would accept my lowly American self, anyway.

It was a beautiful, crisp fall day in Cambridge. Not cold enough for people to stop punting, however. "Punting" is the uppity British form of gondola-steering, basically. Mom and Dad, you might remember seeing people do that at Oxford in the movie "Brideshead Revisited."

On our tour we visited the King's College chapel. It's famous for its fan-vaulted ceiling and a painting by Rubens that hangs near the altar of the chapel. The photo I took of the painting is kind of blurry (just imagine it: baby Jesus, Mary, wise men, etc.), but to the left is a photo of the vaulted ceiling.

Tonight I'm cooking risotto for some friends, tomorrow I'll be studying, then a few days of classes, then off to Scotland for the weekend! I should be adding a link to all of my pictures from Paris, Bath and Stonehenge, and Cambridge a bit later. Cheers, mates!