Punting and Fireworks

Every year, during "May Week," most of the Cambridge colleges hold their college balls, and two of the most dramatic ones are held at Trinity and St. John's. Trinity's was on Monday, St. John's's (how do I punctuate that?) was last night. A big part of those two are the fireworks displays they both have, so last night, me, some other people from my house and Darwin, and Nick all joined the crowds that punted along the river to get a good view of St. John's's fireworks, which go off above the river.

We headed out around 9:15, when it was still light out.



Next, we punted along the river and past Queens' College, which was also having its ball that night and was already lit up.



We also punted past the remains of Trinity's ball from the night before.



Once we got to the good watching-spot (near Trinity), it got extremely crowded.



Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get great night shots from the rocking punt, but I took a picture of the St. John's lights, anyways.



We had about an hour to wait before the fireworks actually started at quarter of 11.



Eventually they got going, although my camera seems to no longer recognize it's "fireworks mode," which is kind of a bummer -- so the photos ended up kind of blurry.





















After the fireworks, there was a mass exodus downriver.



On the way back, we punted past Queens' again and saw a bit more of their ball, which apparently had a Hollywood theme.





From there, we headed back to Darwin and disembarked. Good adventures! And that's the end of the story, for now.