Today we decided to visit St. Mary's Church in the village. It is located on High street and is up the hill from both the school and the town park. It is a nice 15 minute walk up the hill from our house.For the record, it is 600 years old and is affiliated with the Church of England. There is beautiful woodwork and the ceiling is impressive. It is simple compared to what one might see in some churches but is amazing when one thinks of the history.
We walked in the door and one of John's teachers was standing there. She immediately came and got John and gave him a job that was part of the service to give thanks for the First Harvest. He had to carry a vegetable to the priest during part of the service. We met a lady there today that was married in the church. Her daughter was married there and she hopes that her grand daughter will as well. What was really notable was that her mother was married in the church which would have been 80 or 90 years ago. There was a infant baptism with a family that Vivian knows from school.After lunch, we headed towards Cambridge for lunch with the head of operations for PPD in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa). What was interesting was that they promised us a traditional Spanish lunch (they moved from Spain to the US about the time we moved to Wilmington and they moved to London about a year and a half ago and settled outside of Cambridge three months ago). We had paella that was cooked in a pan that had to be almost 3 feet across. Sebastian cooked it on his stove and had all the eyes burning. Traditionally, it is cooked on a open coal fire outside and he actually has a special gas burner that he normally cooks it on. They have three kids that are 12, 8, and 7 so they matched up with our kids very well. It was a very nice way to spend the afternoon and it was an interesting cultural experience.
Afterwards, the kids came home and took a dive into our hot tub with the kids next door and then it was off to bed to rest up for week three of school.
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