A day in Oxford

Welp - yesterday we got stopped in the streets of Oxford, and were cordially invited to join the University there! Good-bye parents! You're girls are staying here! Well at least we might...if we actually did get invited (:
But we did do a incredible tour around the city and saw a good 9 colleges. Every street you walk down, there's another amazing school or cathedral! We stopped in a little shop, now called 'Alice's shop', which inspired Lewis Carroll's 'sheep shop' in 'Alice Through the Looking Glass'. We also drove by his birth home the first day we got here. All in all though, Oxford is such a beautiful city with so much to see in every direction. The library was amazing with an inner courtyard, and specific doors corresponding with that area of study. Needless to say, it was huge. We stopped in the cathedral, which are always stunning, and carried on to try our first Steak and Kidney pies! Well one of us did. We only made it there, and saw all we did because of our wonderful host, Kristeen! She's been feeding us great food, and taking us on our adventures (: Thank you!
Today was different though, no churches or schools - just the STONEHENGE! As soon as you see it, it just takes your breath away. The story of it, and the technology of how/ why it was built is absolutely incredible. Those stones have been there for roughly 5,000 years, which is incredible in itself! Most of the stones weigh around 2 tons each, but the heaviest is 45 tons. Equal to 7 elephants - crazy. It's believed that the people who built it used levers, tree trunks as rollers, and some kind of lifts. The stones over time have fallen over, and some are missing - if I remember correctly. There is a stone in the centre that used to be upright, but is now called the altar. Another stone is called the 'Slaughter Stone'; the reason being - it turns red when it gets wet. Which is almost every day here! A circle of 'Bluestones' make a circle in the centre of the henge, that are blue and white speckled when cracked open. It's also believed that it was used to tell the month of the year that they were currently in. The way that the stones are set up frames the sun in a different 'henge' every month. It moves one to the left as the month moves on. Summer solstice is the time when you can tell where it starts. An incredible structure even without the history, but absolutely worth it.
We spent the evening with the Loffler family eating a fantastic dinner, followed by cards and cocktails!
Tomorrow we head to London.