Top Tens (or more!)

This may be my last post. I have been working on my summary of the summer. It will definitely require some more thought and some editing as I remember more of the things I did, but here is a start. I'm hoping to have it finished in the next week or so! I'll also be trying to make a recap video/recap slide show or some other visual recap. Thanks for following the blog! This summer was an absolute blast.

Top Sites (in no specific order)

• Paris Eiffel Tower for the first time
• Fountains Abbey
• King’s Chapel Roof
• Louvre
• St. Patrick’s Cathedral
• King’s College for the first time in its golden halo of light
• Seeing the Royal Pavilion in Brighton
• Hiking in the Trossachs
• Monet’s water lily paintings in the Orangerie Museum
• Cathedral in Berlin

Top Memories

• Scottish dancing/3rd of July Party/Going out into Edinburgh after
• Top of the Guinness factory, looking out over Dublin
• Hot chocolate in Berlin with Meg
• First formal hall dinner playing games at dinner with Ken, Duc, Ben, Caitlin, and Meg
• Evensong
• Winning croquet and beating the kid from Penn who beat us at trivia the night before
• Getting hot chocolate in Paris with Meg’s family at Angelina’s
• Puddle jumping
• Hearing the Irish live music near Temple Bar, befriending one of the members of the band on the pub crawl and meeting other students from Michigan State
• People watching on Brighton beach with awesome Malteser milk shakes
• Pub crawl in Berlin-most epic night, so much fun with fun cast of characters
• Climbing the Eiffel Tower, hiking up all 686 steps to the second level
• Seeing the Anne Boleyn play in the Old Globe Theater and walking along the Thames River after the play
  

Things I Never Got Used to

• Seeing babies in the drivers’ seat, and then realizing they weren’t actually driving
• Seeing all the stag and hen parties
• Realizing that I was actually in Europe
• All the incredible, old, historical buildings and museums in Europe—the Europeans must be so spoiled to have this all in their backyards
• Calling soccer “football” and football “American football”

Things to remember about Cambridge

• “Do you want to go punting?”- Constantly avoiding being asked about this
• Trailer of Life-late night snacks
• Sainsbury’s grocery store self checkout
• Running through Parker’’s Piece
• Fudge Kitchen and Fudge Fridays
• Living next to Darwin’s old flat
• King’s Bar and 2.05 ciders
• Unpredictable weather
• Pembroke Café: paninis, smoothies and hot chocolate with marshmallows
• King’s Chapel and the buildings around it
• The daily market
• Walking by the bakery “Fitzbillies” everyday and seeing the sweet treats
• Ice cream stands everywhere
• Always tripping because of the uneven cobblestone
• Going to “The Works”—best store EVER!

Favorite European things:

• Maltesers
• Cider
• Pimms and lemonade
• Music: Euro-influenced American music
• JLS-“One Shot” –best boy band song EVER!
• Fudge Friday
• English teas
• European fashion