Day 4

So in my last post I said the chapel behind the Radcliffe Camera was Christ Church. Definitely wrong. It was St. Mary's Cathedral, and it has the highest tower in Oxford from what I understand. So we went and paid 3 pounds ($6) to climb up the tower and look around. The climb up the tower itself was pretty intense.

We paused in the bell room of the tower for a group photo. The rest of the tower is so cramped it would be impossible. Left to right Sarah, Chelsea, Me, Hillary.

Here's what I mean by cramped. When they told use we would climb the tower, we didn't know they meant that literally.

We finally got to the top of the tower and got a sweet new perspective on the Radcliffe Camera, as well as a pretty awesome view of the entire city.


It was pretty high up there. It's slightly different than being in a skyscraper or on a roller coaster though. It's all hundreds-of-years-old rock. I don't know how they built this thing.
For example, I would hate to be the guy that installed all these gargoyles hanging off the ledges...



The city is awesome. The urban atmosphere combined with just the sheer oldness of everything is really cool.


It was quite difficult getting a group picture on top of the tower with nowhere to set a camera on a timer. So we went the arm-stretch self photo route. This was like attempt number 5 at this photo.

After that we climbed back down the tower backwards, luckily not encountering anyone on their way up (I don't even know what we were supposed to do if that happened...) Back on earth, we then walked around the chapel of St. Mary's itself. Again, pretty awesome.
I think this pulpit is weird...It's on the right side, with all the pews facing away from it.
And a closer shot of the massive stained glass windows.
We'll now follow our heroes as they take a break from an action and stop for tea time. We'll have a look at the Trinity College dining hall while we're at it.

The big picture is Sir Thomas Pope, the founder of Trinity College.

The chandelier that magically looks fake in all photographs.
And of course, ol' puffy sleeves.
After tea we hit up another chapel, Trinity's own.






Remember that Sir Thomas Pope guy, the founder? Well, this is where he's entombed, right in the middle of the chapel:

That was it for our day of chapels. Later that night we had our first encounter with authentic an authentic English pub, the Knights Arms, referred to as KA by the locals, and now us.

Hillary, Lauren, Chelsea, Krysten

Linsey, Brittany, Me, John Thomas
Brian and Mary Beth

John Thomas...I don't even know...

That's about it for Day 4. Tomorrow I'll talk about today I suppose, as that seems to be the way this is going and I think is easiest for me.