So far in Cambridge

So though we have been working full time cleaning, we have managed to get out and explore Cambridge quite a bit. We don't yet have bicycles, so our exploring has been on foot, which has left us quite physically tired and hungry a lot of days. Today we walked for nearly 3 hours! Pictures of the house will come later, but we almost have the downstairs cleaned, which is very exciting. We're doing what we can to make it nice and it's coming along. The picture below is of Kelly cleaning a wall today. Note the color difference between the clean and unclean parts. That is how all of the walls here were.

Two-tone wall -- Gross!

Here is a picture of the front of our place. A lot of the houses here are connected, similar to San Francisco. Ours is the blueish door on the right. The green door next to it is a little passageway that we can park our bikes in when we get them.

Home for now

Looking toward town. Our house is directly across the street to the right

Most of our wandering times we forgot to take the camera with or forgot to take many pictures, but today we wandered into Trinity college and happened to have the camera with. It was really breathtakingly beautiful. There is a choral service on Wed. night in the chapel there that we might go hear.

Ryan in front of Trinity college

Kelly on the Trinity college green

Most of what we have been up to is cleaning and wandering. And some shopping for necessities. Almost all of the people at the grocery stores here use re-usable bags for their groceries. And all of the groceries come in sizes that are just a bit smaller than what we were used to in the states. Which we are thankful for since we are carrying all of our groceries on foot!
Kelly starts work tomorrow, so her months-long vacation is over. She went into work today to sign a bunch of paperwork. Ryan is planning to continue cleaning part time and look for a job. And he will have to take care of some details of life out here that we haven't gotten to. For example, we are not allowed to get mobile phones out here without a debit card from a UK bank. We started a bank account, but we do not yet have our debit cards and so we have been only using Kelly's US mobile at 99 cents/min. There are just so many details involved in picking up life and moving to another country!