i took the 9:52 train to cambridge todayy. we nearly missed it. we sprinted for the train cos we had to buy tickets and managed to get into one of the carriages with 2min to spare. it was exactly an hour's ride to cambridge and dad showed me king's college and the place where he bought the engagement ring for my mom. then he brought me to a teashop called auntie's and then we got to walk through selwyn college - his college!! and and cambridge university got voted the top university in the world, and selwyn college is the top university of cambridge. so in other words i was walking through the top college in the world and even walking on it's grass. the funny thing is selwyn is the poorest college there. it's most probably one fifth the size of kings and trinity college. but the garden was so nice. wow.
well then we went punting on the river cam and dad told me how cambridge got it's name.
"this is the river cam. and someone built a bridge over it and it became cambridge! ta-da!"
actually there were tonnes of bridges over it. like one every 50m. and i saw the mathematical bridge, which is the one isaac newton built with no nails, so every piece of wood was just balancing on each other to form a bridge and people could even walk on it. but then this professor came along and said: "hey i can do this too!" and dismantled it but couldn't put it back again so now it has nails. =.= damn professor.
then we went to wren library - it's considered to be the most beautiful library in the world and it really is. and i went inside and there were the manuscripts of the original first eyewitness account of an atomic bomb, and the copy of the letters of st paul!! and the principia mathematica of isaac newton and the first edition of shakespeare's plays!! gosh! the originals! oh mann it was scary.
well then we went to this shop called tattie's where they sell humongous jacket potatoes which are really yummy. well then i walked into trinity college's great courtyard - we were allowed to walk through each college because my dad was a selwyn man so they let him through - and the courtyard is humoungous. i think we can just plop the upper secondary block and the canteen and the width of a basketball court in it. and it's only the courtyard. it's scary!!
well then we walked back to the train station and had to buy a new ticket for me cos mine got swallowed by the machine and it didn't come out again. so we had to sprint for the train and this time got on it with 4min to spare! yay!
slept on the way back and just stayed in the room..and here i am. ta daa. (: