Walking to the Walker

Our big adventure yesterday was to pick up (collect) a walker I saw for sale on gumtree.com, which is used here instead of craig's list. Juniper, Kirby and I walked an hour (2.5 miles) across Cambridge to an area I hadn't been yet. It took a bit longer than planned because we tried to turn a block early to avoid a busy intersection, but you have to be very careful with such moves here as to not end up on a dead end or blocked by a gate. This has happened on a few occasions, particulary when roaming around one of the colleges at the university. Side note: Cambridge University is made of about 33 colleges. You become a part of a college for social life, the pub, housing, sports, formal dinners, and this kind of thing- just like Gryfindor or Hufflepuff in Harry Potter. Kirby is in Darwin College which is all graduate students, about 650 of them. Some colleges are as small as 50 or 200 and have mixed undergrad and grads. Then depending on your program of study you are a part of a department, like US colleges, but these are seperate than the colleges- unlike the US. Kirby is in the Dept. of Land Economy. I explain this because it took me a while to get it, and I explain it now because each college has its own buildings and grounds.  The big ones such as Kings College, have guards (men in robes) at the gates only letting particular people through. Sometimes University students can get where visitors can't and other times only college members are allowed in. Anyway we have gotten lost and trapped in them and asked to leave.
Getting back on track, we took a long walk to get this walker. We had almost rented a flat even further from the city center than we went that day. Good thing we didn't because it is really far away! Then it started to heavily rain as we reached the person's house and Juniper was waking from her nap, so we needed to take a break. Where else to go? Pizza Hut. Kirby hadn't had pizza since he left, so we had a nice, expensive pizza. We had it while we were in India once too (Pizza Hut is a fancy restaurant in India). Actually that may have been the last time I had been to one- six years ago. British Pizza Hut has only two sizes- individual and share. "Share" is like a medium. They serve beer at Pizza Hut here and we wondered whether they do that in the states.
It was time to head 2.5 miles back home. I've got to get used to walking in the rain anyways. The walker was well worth it and most of the walk was through various parks. Juniper was immediately excited to play with it. And the next night, she figured out how to cross the room to get to her mama!