For our first day trip, we went over to Cambridge. We had to get up early and tubed over to King’s Cross Station, we lost half our group in the tube (they got on a tube before the rest of us could) and so we had to wait around at King’s Cross until everyone was found. We passed by 9 ¾ on our way to our platform, took a picture and then continued on to the train. I tried to stay awake and watch the countryside but I very quickly fell asleep and did not wake up until we were practically there. We walked what seemed like a very long way up to the heart of Cambridge. One of the Colleges, Pembrook was open to the public so we walked around it, explored, got some water, and took some pictures. We stopped in at this center market which had apparently been there, in various incarnations, for hundreds of years, I bought some cranberries and some Thai veggie curry, it was so good. We then went down to the Cam. The Cam is a river that runs through the University, hence Cam-bridge, there were quite a few bridges though. One thing you can do on the Cam is something called punting. Punting is basically what the guys in Venice do on gondolas. You can get on a boat and punt yourself or you can take a tour with someone who punts for you. Two groups from our seminar decided to try punting for themselves, which was very amusing for those of us who went on the guided tour. We passed by Queens, Kings, St. Johns and some other College I think. After our long walk to the University, being able to lounge was very nice. When we finished, those of us on the tour had to walk back to the center and keep our tour guided busy until the self-punters made it back. Three of us really wanted ice cream so we got some of that, mine was a medium and instead of being two scoops on top of each other it was two scoops beside each other. We joked that it was kind of like London, expanding out instead of up like New York. Our tour guide was really nice and we started our walking tour of scientific Cambridge. Sadly, for me it was very boring; also, they never put scientists in pretty buildings so we spent most of our time around buildings built in the 60s. After that was done we decided to have dinner at a pub called the Eagle which is where either Watson or Crick announced that they had discovered the structure of DNA. We all (except for James) got fish and chips. The fish was huge! It was like they gave us all a whole fish to eat. Some of us also got some drinks. Two people got this thing called Pimms, which is a gin-based drink and with lemonade was extremely tasty. After dinner, we walked back to the train station, bummed around until our train got there and then rode back. That night we decided that we wanted to find a pub near us and make good on the lower drinking age. However, we discovered that places near us get either very full or close around ten or eleven, thus ended our quest, in defeat.