Today the kids and I brought Grandma Sally and Grandpa Mike to the beautiful city of Cambridge.
Mike and Sally love to do the Hop-on-Hop-Off bus tours and since it was something I hadn't done in Cambridge yet, we made that our main tourist event. It was a little bit chilly but the best views were from up on the top of the bus. Harrison enjoyed about 3 minutes of commentary then decided he wanted to lay on my lap for a bit.
One of my favorite bridges crossing the Cam...the mathematical bridge. Said to have been designed that it wouldn't need any nails to hold the wood together for the way it was pieced together. It now has bolts holding the bridge together not for support but because students used to take the bridge apart piece by piece.
On our bus tour we got to see an amazing view of King's Chapel towering in the middle of King's College. It is such an amazing building...too bad I haven't been inside yet to see the famous stained glass windows.
Like I've said before, cycling is huge in Cambridge and there are bicycles everywhere. You can see them lined up on our side of the road right along the cars and then across the street at the light they are all lined up. Reason being is that no student at Cambridge University is not allowed to have a car registered anywhere within a 5 mile radius of the city of Cambridge.
The bus also brought us out past the American Military Cemetery which I had no idea existed near Cambridge. Initially in 1943 this site was donated by Cambridge University to the United States to use as a temporary cemetery for soldiers killed in WWII. In 1956 it was dedicated as a permanent cemetery and is the only American WWII cemetery in the United Kingdom.
After our bus tour we decided to catch a bite to eat at my favorite pub in Cambridge - The Anchor (well, it's the only pub I've eaten at in Cambridge but I love it).
Addison shared a big platter of fish and chips with Grandma Sally. She quite enjoyed her extra large fish stick!
The Anchor is situated right along the River Cam next to the punting boats. Today there were several sporatic rain showers and one was coming down at a pretty good clip while we were eating lunch. Funny thing was that is that the sun was shining, but raining super hard.
After lunch we made our way down to the open air market in Market Square. I found the perfect dress for Sally. I did happen to find a special treat for myself at the market - 4 huge "steak" plates of the Johnson Bros. "Old English Castles" collection along with another red printed pattern platter - all for my china collection. Sally picked up a few little bits as well for gifts.
We made our way back to our bus pick up in the pouring rain, but the kids were in really good spirits for getting wet. We made our way back out to the park and ride and drove on home.
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