First off, this is Rachel, she's one of my roommates in the flat. Every morning it's a ritual that Rachel and Krista straighten their hair. It's kind of dodgey in our flat, so we all gather round the single mirror. Great fun, really!
This is where we have three out of our five classes, Regus offices. It's an office building that's literally down the block from where we live. It's extremely nice and has internet access 24/7 for anyone who wants to use it. At least for us in the classroom. Very cool though.
Our home!
Hammersmith - which is the street that the classroom space is on. Cool, yeah?
This is the EPIC motorcycle that we pass by every day when walking to the Tube. The windshield kills me. Plus there are hand covers for the handles so that your hands don't get cold. How awesome is that?
Dril Hall, which we have become very acquainted with lately. This is where we have our rehearsals. It's a great space until we get to move into Tara.
The bus to Cambridge. Gryffindor!
Sam....
Taryn...
Rachel...
Ben... are you seeing a theme yet? Sleep is the name of the game when on the bus.
This is Catherine, our guide who was incredibly knowledgable about Cambridge. She was really great. I believe that she lives in Cambridge, the city itself... which is somewhat embedded into the university as well. It's really interesting. But the kicker is that her sons both rebelled and went to Oxford, which is the main rival of Cambridge. 
There's no way that I know most of the names of the different colleges (there's 31 in all...) so I'll just give a brief overview and whatnot. Cambridge was founded in 1209 (they're celebrating their octennial this year! Very exciting!) by a few students who seperated from Oxford due to the fact that they were rumored to be the murderers of a woman at Oxford. They don't know how true that is? But hey, whatever works. They also didn't like some of the rules and regulations at Oxford, thus Cambridge was born. However, there were also others in the area of Cambridge... there's actually a Saxon tower that was part of a chapel, which you'll see when you scroll down, so there were people there even before that in the 1000's. Insane to think about!
This is a state of the art clock that was donated to the University by one of it's alums. It's incredibly unique and so cool when you see it. The reflection of the sky in the window kind of is in the way, but on top of the round structure there's a really creepy looking grasshopper, who is literally "eating" the minutes away as each second passes. It's to signify that we have very little time on this Earth so we should all make the most of it. It's pretty amazing and kind of inspiring as far as sets/costumes/etc go. I'd love to do a set based around that clock because it's so neat.
I can't remember specifically what the Latin inscription under the clock is, but it's a bible verse that says that we all have little time on this Earth or something along those lines. 
Here's one of the oldest chapels on campus... which includes the Saxon tower that I mentioned earlier. It even has owl holes so that owls can fly in and eat the rats. 
Doorway to the chapel.
Close-up (as close as I could get) to the belltower.
Inside the chapel.
Zoom in of one of the stained glass windows.
Cavendish Laboratory was the main science building of the University. It's where the first atom was split and where DNA was discovered. Super amazing! It moved in the 1970's to a more up-to-date and state of the art building.
On the streets of Cambridge. King's College Chapel is the tall building beyond Catherine's head.
No picnics allowed. That's right. It's actually frowned upon to go onto the grass as well.
This is Great St. Mary's Church which is across the street to the King's College. It's the point where all other points are measured from. So say that you want to know how many miles it is to Cambridge from London, it would be measured from Great St. Mary's. We didn't get inside, but the outside alone was amazing in itself.
This was the coolest thing... It's a map of Cambridge in bronze, but it's 3-dimensional so you can tell where you are and where you want to go with the specific buildings and all. We saw another one just outside the college actually too. It's so freaking awesome. Now if we could just get some of those for actual London itself, maybe we'd know where we were going...
Another chapel. Each college within the university has it's own chapel and dorms and libraries, etc. It's a very different concept from our universities back at home. But for the clock on this one, you can kind of see it... there's a sun dial at the top!
King's College Chapel from the outside - the more recent side of it.
The gates to Clare College.
The doors to King's College Chapel. It was built first under Henry VI with the first stone in 1441 and Henry VIII finished it in 1547. Interestingly enough, the first half of the building, which was built under Henry VI, the building is completely devoted to God - there are no royal symbols or crests in the architecture. But the latter half of the building, Henry VIII has crests of the Tudors and symbols indicated himself everywhere and every place possible. Just shows how selfish of a king he was, which obviously we all already knew anyway but still, kind of neat, right?
This is the giant painting that rests at the head of King's College Chapel. It's literally huge. Taller than a person and absolutely gorgeous.
These windows are huge and really nothing I could do could describe their power well, but every window in the Chapel is stained glass. This is the window at the head of the building - the windows are in three panels telling the various stages of the crucifixion. The stained glass windows are some of the oldest medieval styled windows in Europe and the world. During WWII, in fear that they would be bombed by the Germans, they took the windows apart, piece by piece and put the glass into storage during the war to save them. And after the war they put everything back together again. They're seriously breathtaking, even though the entire Chapel is, really.
This is the first half of the Chapel with a giant black oak wooden frame thing that has all the seats for the King's College Chapel Choir, along with candles for their lights. The gold in the background is a huge organ, which there are better pictures of further down.
Kind of gives you a scale of the grandness. Absolutely remarkable inside, really.
The organ.
The ceiling, which has no pillars to hold up. It's all held up by the architecture choice, fan-vaulted ceilings and support from the buttresses outside.
Henry VIII gave the oak gate thing as a gift to the Chapel... of which had these doors with these incredible intricate details. In the middle you can see HR, for Henry Rex. It's all about Henry, clearly!
Another one of the doors.
This is a particular close-up of some of the details of the door. It's a woman strung up by her hair... a popular form of torture for a woman who committed adultery. Scholars and historians place the gate near the time of Anne Boleyn's marriage to Henry because of many hints about her, such as this.
One of the lower panels of wall underneat the stained glass. Of which all of the symbols of the Tudor reign are represented in the carvings.
A bit more closer of the same thing.
The back of the chapel... the Henry VIII side.
The organ and the gate. 
A close-up of the organ from this side of it.
All of the girls! Krista, me, Sam, Taryn and Rachel.
Theatre majors! Krista, Ben, me and Sam. 
After the Chapel, we went to have lunch at The Eagle, possibly one of the more famous pubs in Cambridge. There's a plaque that was brought back by Crick and Watson, the men who discovered how DNA carries information in our bodies, to commemorate the pub because once they discovered DNA, they ran across the street to the pub first and announced it happily. As well they should, who doesn't like to celebrate with a pint?
The outside of the Eagle. I didn't get a picture of it, but inside, straight through the windows above Catherine's head, the ceilings are written on with smoke ashes - the names of various men who served in the RFA during WWII, since Cambridge was a big part of the war.
The upstairs window of the Eagle is always to remain open otherwise "bad things happen" according to a superstition!
The absolutely gorgeous terrace of The Eagle. Supposedly there was a theatre group that performed Romeo and Juliet in the courtyard of The Eagle there. How perfect would that be?!
The absolutely amazing dessert that I had... Chocolate Chaos. So freaking good. Dark and white chocolate mousse on top of a brownie like thing, covered in chocolate chips and accompanied by home churned ice cream. So so so so good.
Rachel and Taryn trying fish and chips for the first time!
Ede & Ravenscroft is the place where all of the robes are made and taylored for graduation of the students of Cambridge. They also make all of the royal robes. Sam and I went inside... it definitely smells of money when a scarf costs 100 pounds. We quickly left so that we didn't end up in trouble.
Another one of the chapels in town.
Come on, you can't tell me you didn't expect at least one of these kind of pictures eventually!
Surprisingly enough, there aren't many red phone booths around London. They've all been kind of modernized, but there are still a couple! And the doors are a lot heavier than you might think.
Sam at the door of the Queens' College. The apostrophe goes after the s because it was given by 2 Queens to the University - they remind everyone of that every time you mention Queens' College.
Queens' College from the inside.
The last thing that we did in Cambridge was take a punting tour down the Cam river (thus the name of the town... Cam Bridge because there was one of the first bridges across the river Cam in Cambridge.) which was a blast.
Swack! Swan-duck. It's just a white duck, but we kept calling them swacks affectionately.
Our incredibly hot and hilarious tour guide, Ed. Not the best angle of him since he was standing up right behind me, but still very good looking.
The Mathematical Bridge that goes over to Queens' College. When it was built, it didn't have any nuts and bolts if you can believe it, and it still stayed up and looked like that. But when they realized the structural danger, they took it apart and then couldn't put it back together again even with nuts and bolts. They eventually figured it out and it is how it is today!
Views along the river.
King's College and the King's College Chapel.
The rear of King's College Chapel.
Passing by another boat and punter.
One of the dormatories... which was actually designed to look like a boat going into the river Cam.
Along the river there are these gorgeous Willow trees that we would go under. Absolutely breathtaking all along the way.
The Wren Library in Trinity College. It holds Sir Isaac Newton's papers and the manuscript of Winnie the Pooh. Unfortunately we didn't get inside, but at least we saw the outside of the building!
St. John's College.
One of the four Bridges of Sighs in the entire world. One is in Venice, one is in Vegas, one is at Cambridge and the other is at Oxford. As Ed, our tour guide says, "students at Oxford stand on the bridge and sigh that aren't at Cambridge."
So beautiful.
The back of St. John's College... completely covered in ivy, because they didn't have the same brick as in the front to finish it. But still absolutely gorgeous.
Last and least, the boys went punting on their own. That's Steve, Matt, Andy and Ben is punting. Ed was very impressed with how far they got and how well they did. Kudos boys!That's all I've got for right this second. I promise that I won't be so absent and I'll let you all know about things here soon since Cambridge was a week ago, literally to the day. It's just been insanely busy and we're always on the go. If it's not classes, it's shows, to rehearsals, to tube rides, to attempting sight-seeing, to homework. Busy, busy, busy! But I hope to get a real update in here soon!
Hope everyone's doing well. Cheers!
