its raining sweets, hallelujah, its raining sweets!

Before this trip started, someone who had previously came on the trip said that I had to goto Cambridge and go punting so Chelsea & I made it our mission to do just this.

We invited everyone on the trip and set off on Wednesday afternoon after lunch. The trip already started with a bang..the ticket lady was a...CRAZY. She really was a bit of a nazi with her tickets and even tried to take Dani & Meghan's rail passes. She was crazy, we were scared.

We finally made it to Cambridge and had to walk a million miles (it felt like) and ask a million people for directions around Cambridge to go punting.

Cambridge was surprisingly diverse, absolutely gorgeous, and there were bikes everywhere! Everyone was on a bike!

We finally found a place to go punting, which I didn't even end up paying for...awesome!

Our punter was named Sam.

Sam was hilarious and really, really entertaining. We all boarded the boat and began our punting adventure.

We took a tour and everything was so, so gorgeous and it was really neat because the city is so rich with history. It was super interesting, and entertaining since Sam had plenty of jokes and stories and wittyness to add to the experience.

I learned that during World War II, Cambridge was never bombed because Hitler thought that the city was very beautiful, so he refused to let anyone bomb it. He also said that if were to ever conquer Britian he would move in to one of the Universities. I thought this was super interesting.

While on the punting ride, we made some friends. Some of these friends included a group of kids that were standing on a bridge. As we passed under the bridge, they threw candy to (or at) us. It was raining sweets! We all ate our candy and made our way down the canal thinger.

Those kids weren't the only friends we made, however. We also made friends with this boat of 2 girls and 2 guys. We kept passing them on our tour and we'd say hi and talk as we passed each time. The last time we passed them, they threw us a bag of... drinks, which was surprisingly nice. Nothing like enjoying refreshments with our punting!

We heard stories about the Red Hot Chili Peppers going on punting rides, interesting facts about ducks, and Sam even shared his accents with us, which were hilarious. His American and Newcastle accents were spot on.

Sam also told us about the Cambridge Beerfest that still happened to be in town...BINGO!

We payed £3 to get in and then £2 for souvenir glasses and then we went in to see the walls lined with kegs, and kegs, and kegs.

Cider, beer, and bison burgers followed.
Sam the punter ended up meeting up with us later; I asked him if he knew any drinking songs and he shared a particular one that he and his rugby team enjoyed. It was about Yogi Bear...

Since the last train left from Cambridge to Grantham at 8pm, we had to run across the city to the train station. Luckily, we made it just in time to catch the train back to Grantham and we went on our merry way. It was a fantastic day!