day of rest

oh man.. so last night, major major jet lag.. elise, sarah, and i were laying awake for quite a while.. after getting up and getting food, chatting in the kitchen for about 2 or 3 hours we decided that we weren't really tired.. so we figured everyone else must have major jet lag as well.. so we decided to creep up to the guys floors even though its not allowed cause of rules and stuff and see if we can get one of the guys to play cards with us.. keep in mind it was 5am here.. haha so that was fun, we had no luck and ended up just getting spooked out because this is an old creepy house and it makes lots of weird noises.. but thats okay it was fun. so we ended up going to bed at 530 only to wake up at 815 for church the next morning..

815 came extremely early.. but its okay, we were planning on using this to get our sleeping schedules on track... so we went to christ church college.. it was BEAUTIFUL.. i have pics but i havent figured out how to put them up.. anyways.. it was amazing.. it had a huge quad campus and along with the dining hall and some other random places inside are shooting locations for the harry potter movies.. it was amazing, its everything it looks like in the movies but better. also inside of the college there is works from Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo... the church service itself was fabulous.. it was a high Anglican church that was extremely traditional. i have never been to anything like it where you stand up and sit down and stuff but it was neat. the boys choir sang for a good portion of the service and they did very well.. it was an experience.

the entrance to the cathedral

the view when you walk in.. the entrance to the chapel is straight ahead

the view on the side, when walking to the cathedral.. early in the morning when the sun is still rising.. gorgeous

what you see immediately when you walk in, straight ahead

the entrance, its a really long hall so you cant really see the door, there is a little podium in the middle of the floor but the preacher stood in this little cubby on the wall.. haha i dont know what its called.. but its little and in the left side of this photo

this is where we sat.. its hard to see but we were in the section closest to the choir, on the same side as preacher

after that we just walked around down town and got some groceries and went to the little mall shopping area that had places to eat and buy stuff.. we just walked around it was a beautiful sunday afternoon.. we then came back to the houses and cooked some lunch and took a nap.. our little nap ended up being all afternoon kinda so we ended up missing the church service we wanted to go to but thats okay.. we had 9 o clock worship/devotional in the commons room and it was fabulous, we just talked about a bunch of stuff and sang and hung out together... after that we walked down to the city center and got some ice cream and coffee and it started to rain a bit.. it was the first time we have seen rain since we have been here but it had stopped by the time we left