Cambridge

Mom and Dad went on their first "outing" last week. Here is some narrative from Mom:

On Wednesday we went to Cambridge. It was our first day out.

Our first stop was Verulaneum at St. Albans just outside the city. There is a museum and then kind of an archeological dig nearby. We walked about a mile in the fog to St. Albans cathedral. We had been neither of these places so it was great for us. The cathedral itself had so many wonderful aspects - ceilings, screens, Abbey the bear... We may go back there too.

After that we ate lunch on the coach and by the time we got to Cambridge, we'd come out of the fog. We went to a cemetery for WWII American soldiers on land that was donated by England. There was a huge wall with over 5000 names of soldiers whose bodies had not been found. Among them was the band leader Glenn Miller and Joseph Kennedy Jr., JFK's older brother - who his dad had figured would be the president some day - who volunteered for a dangerous mission and his plane was blown up over the English Channel.

When we got to Cambridge we went to the Fitzwilliam Art Museum - which they've expanded - and then we walked down to the colleges. We had a minute for a panini before we went to get in line for Evensong. It was pitch black by 5:00 PM. The college next to Kings had kind of a neat thing going on with light designs flashed on one of the buildings. We sat right in the choir for Evensong.

So, that was it. Next week we go to Stonehenge - brrrr - and Salisbury.