Punting, Grease and Sangria!

after a night in salmanca with cassi raie, rebekah and i just had a siesta and are now trying to remember all that´s happened between the last time we wrote, and now.
  before we left england we visited Cambridge-a city filled with buildings older than the united states. one of my favorite moments was walking into the wren library and seeing on of shakespeares first folio´s! i had to stifle my scream when i saw it, we were in a library after all. the library also had an 8th century copy of paul´s epistles, a locke of newton´s hair (weird?), and the original manuscript to a.a.milines ¨winnie the pooh.¨ if that wasn´t enough, they also used that library in a couple of scenes in harry potter. bliss.
  one of rebekah´s favorite things from cambridge was the chance we had to go ¨¨punting.¨ punting is kinda like canoeing, except you have a guy on the back with a long pole who pushes you along. the rive we went on cruised right by all the old colleges in the town, and the sight was breathtaking. the guy pushing our boat wasn´t too bad looking either.
  (rebekah speaking) Our last day in England was packed full of qwonderful london sites. We we able to tour the London Tower, where we learned of all the brutal killings that were a part of daily living back then. he tower was originally build for the King and Queen to have a safe place to live admist all the wars, however it quickly turned into a fortress-like city, complete with a chapel, and a prison. The prison has seen many a prisoner ranging form your common traitor to some of henry VIII´s queens. Also, issac newton stayed at the tower as a helper for the mint. Other adventrues included imprompto piano concert at st. martins in the fields, trafalgar quare for a pick-me-up of coffee and tes, westminster abbey for an evensong and the show Grease! Very full and exciting day.

  Saying goodbye to england was a longer process then we thought-it took us about 12hours of traveling to finally arrive in salamanca. the little hotel we´re staying in here is as nice change from the hostel we stayed in in london, rather than the smell of urine and sketchy room mates, we have a beautfiully clean room with our own beds and a hot shower. Salmanca is beautiful.


  we´re off to madrid tomorrow for some more tapas, sangria and butchered spanish speaking skills.
  peace!