Would you like any Grey Poupon?

So here is our last run of England posts before I race to catch up with all that has happened since we've been home. This is a quick photo tour of some of the awesome formal hall dinners and delicious cream teas we attended while at Cambridge.

Cream tea:

You show up and stuff your face with fancy sandwiches, cream cakes, other cakes, and of course scones (with or without raisins) covered in raspberry jam and clotted (sweetened) cream. With some peppermint tea on the side. Can you ask for anything better than that?

Formal Hall:

Dressed to the nines (or whatever you brought in your suitcase - thanks, Mikelle!) you enjoy a relaxing evening on the lawn (usually reserved for faculty only but sometimes they make exceptions...) for drinks (orange juice for the Mormons, wine for everyone else) and stimulating intelligent conversation (not always the easiest thing, but we tried) before the servants usher into the grand hall where, after standing at the ring (or "bang" or "gong") of a gong we listen to a prayer in Latin and are served a many-coursed meal with lots of utensils and - you guessed it - free wine for everyone (I learned to really like bubbly water). Again, stimulating conversation is a must, all the while trying not to drip caviar, honeycomb cream, and other delicacies on me or my husband. Ah, the posh life.

(This is butter)

We sure loved our time here!!!!