Day 11

Oooops, sorry about that!  I'm a day behind now.  I was so beat last night, I ended up crashing into my bed and that was it!

OK so yesterday (Day 11) I woke up kinda late.  It seems as though all this stuff is catching up with me.  I'm tired.  Not just from all the walking walking walking walking EVERYWHERE... but because of the weird food, weird hours, doing something all the time, it eventually wears you out!

So I got up and Lochie wanted to go visit the Rosslyn Chapel.  So Michelle and I saddled up our walking shoes and headed off with him.  I almost died 5 times because I can't keep the direction of the traffic straight in my head.  I look the "wrong" way because I know that it is the right way, then when I get half way across, I forget to look the other "wrong" way again, only this time it really is the wrong way!!!  I see nothing coming and then after taking a few steps realize I'm looking the wrong way and almost get killed!

Anyway, I'm pretty quick, so I'm still OK.

So about this chapel, apparently it is pretty famous and was in that movie "Da Vinci Code".  I've never seen the movie myself, but the Chapel is pretty amazing.  Different then the one in Germany, but just as cool for different reasons.  There is a neat/weird story about a pillar maker and his apprentice, I won't give it away, but you can either look it up or come visit Scotland.

It was my first experience with Scotland's Countryside.  I find Scotland to be very much like Canada only with older houses and poorly kept streets.  We went to a little pub while we were there and Robbie Burns seems to be present in every little pub in all of Scotland.  Posters, pictures, quotes, tunes... they LOVE him!

It rained for a bit in the last half of the day, but the morning was pretty nice.  I'm glad, because walking around in that chapel soaking wet would have sucked.

After we got back, we went for a walk to visit some more shops and stuff.  Michelle and I continued on while Lochie went back to the flats.  Michelle then dragged me into every bizarre and freaky store available in Edinburgh.  There must be 600,000 used clothing stores here!  We finally got to the pub everyone was supposed to be meeting at, but no one was there, so we headed back to the flats.  No one apparently was making a move for supper so Michelle suggested a little pub/restaurant we saw in our travels.  I ordered some fish and chips that I had been craving all day.  It was very well done.  One thing that bothers me though about Scotland is they don't offer regular vinegar.  Every time I ask for vinegar they say it is in the little dish.  Well the only vinegar in the dish is malt vinegar!  THANKS!!!  Jerks.

I'm actually getting homesick for food.  I miss cooking.  I also miss my favourite brand-names.  I miss clean dishes.  You can't clean anything with the dish washing liquid they have here and the laundry soap will give you a headache from the smell of it.  I also miss just being home.  I miss my routines and I miss my bed.  Oh how I love that bed of mine.

By the time we all got home I was already in that walking coma sleep thing.  I can barely remember how I even got home.  I think I fell asleep in the restaurant and someone carried me home.  Really, I am getting worse as time goes on.

OK my dear friends, I am going to write another one of these about my adventures today.  So I will see you soonish.

Mmmmmwah!