So yesterday at promptly 1:00 pm, which was Saturday, we had a PCM sponsored event called “Protesting Winter” where a lot of us took a trip right down the road into Princeton to get Ice Cream and show the Winter that we don’t mind the cold! We had taken two cars and when had first arrived in Princeton we had to look for parking, Princeton can be very hectic, especially on the weekends! After we parked, you could instantly feel how cold it was outside but that didn’t bother us (well maybe only me because for some reason I was freezing!) so we met up as a group and went off to the Halo Pub for some Ice cream!!

Everyone got their own great flavor of ice cream and some of us even got milkshakes and hot chocolate. Oh, and I should also say that some of us got egg nog but the ones who did got kind of sick after drinking it =/, but we managed to feel better :]. We sat outside while eating our ice cream and talking of local gossip. Once everyone was finished, we decided to walk around Princeton to see how beautiful of a place it really is. We went for a walk on the Princeton University Campus which I must say is a sight beyond belief, the buildings, history, and architecture of that place is magnificent.  Two of the people that took us into Princeton are our Seminary interns from the Princeton Theological School, Alex and Keri, and Alex was really fluent with the Princeton Campus and so he offered to give us a tour.

The highlight of the tour was definitely right from the very beginning, our first stop was the Chapel on the Princeton Campus. It was magnificent, I mean it was really unbelievable. From outside at first glance we couldn’t believe our eyes that it was such a great piece of architecture, it honestly looked like a chapel that you would find in New York City!! The architecture of the chapel has a very nostalgic, gothic, but beautiful appeal to it. We walked inside and it was difficult to express in words what the view was like. We were also fortunate enough to be able to hear a few people playing music on the pipe organ as well as trumpets and the music went very well for the setting. Everyone took a group photo as well as other pictures of the Chapel from the inside, and we admired the warmth and the history that the beautiful chapel had to offer us.

No one wanted to leave the Chapel, I mean that is a place where you can just stay all day and never stop smiling or being amazed by the feeling that you get when you are inside something so wonderful, but sadly we had to move on =/. We walked out of the chapel and continued a walking tour of parts of the campus until we decided that it was time for us to head back to Rider.

Everyone really had a great and awesome time and some of us even decided that we would come back to the Princeton Chapel on Sunday’s when they offer services. Keri told us that sometimes on Sundays there might be more than 100 people in the chapel, but the chapel is so large that that is a very small number and you wouldn’t even be able to tell there was that many people inside.

Thanks Alex and Keri, and everyone else who came and showed up who made the day Great!!