After a good hour of exchanging study abroad stories and travel advise, we headed to the Elephant Cafe for lunch. This cafe is where the author of Harry Potter wrote her books!!! It was a super cute place and we enjoyed the shelter from the rain.
After lunch, we headed to the Meadows to find a place for tea and desert! Don't judge!!!!! When it is pouring down rain, one can only find shelter where food is involved. This time we picked Deacon Brodies, named after William Brodie, one of the inspirations for Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde.
We had a blast laughing over cake and scones! This time the conversation surrounded our adventures in New York....
Oh yeah!!! That time I woke up thinking it was raining... Then assumed someone was in the shower. Then after seeing everyone in bed, assumed someone left the shower on... and finally getting up discovered that our pipes had burst in the hotel... Yeah that time we risked staying at a hotel with previously reported murders in order to extend our stay a couple of nights... We laughed at the memory of me running down the stairs in my pajamas to find the nonchalant staff who was not surprised to hear that our room was flooding with boiling water... That time Chase had to wear rain boots to salvage my stuff from our flooding room in this crazy hotel! I can't really tell y'all if people were staring at us laughing, because we were soooo into our stories that I didn't ever bother looking around! Here is two clips from that day:
After tea, I took
Chase to the National Museum of Scotland, since I hadn’t really spend enough
time there on Friday. We really enjoyed
goofing off with the interactive games and had more fun than most of the kids
there.
On
the way own, the elevator was packed and the line for it was super
long.... so we decided to take the stairs... but it was on the outside
of the building... So halfway down, we started to doubt if the exit was a
regular exit or just a fire escape!!! Yikes! No worries! Captain Hook
or some Johnny Depp looking character came to the rescue with his long
hair, limp, and crazy accent! One second later he had led us and his
girlfriend back in the building. With the rain and the fog, one could
have thought we were in a movie... Pirates of the Caribbean gone wrong.
Since it was still pouring down rain, we walked to Starbucks to dry off
before heading back to the apartment to change for Ghost!! Once we were
done with our tea, it had stopped raining! We decided to walk home and
enjoyed many laughs, while Chase imagined me retracing this walk in the
dark the night before... Oh man!
After quickly changing, we headed out
for dinner and Ghost! Well... EVERY restaurant near Ghost was
booked/packed/or had a 1 hour wait... Soooo.... we went out into the
pouring (this time brutal rain with strong winds) down rain that quickly
soaked my dress and proved that my raincoat was NOT water proof. After
many failed attempts, we settled in at another Starbucks! Side note:
there was a girl we crossed earlier in Edinburgh, who had dreadlocks and
was not wearing any shoes and was walking around the city barefoot....
She was at starbucks and had her feet up on a chair!!! Poor Chase caught
sight of them and could barely keep eating!!! 
A panini and shortbread
later, we were ready for Ghost!!!!! A little background for those that
don't know.... Ghost: the Musical was on Broadway last summer when I was
interning in the city. To say I fell in love with the show wouldn't
cover it! I fell in love with the music, the message, the emotions, and
the main guy. I met one of the other guys in the show one day and he
took Adam and I backstage and then went to dinner with us at Joe Allens,
the spot where all the actors hang out after their shows. He was super
sweet and we all met up with him again last Christmas when we were in
NYC! Anyway, long story short... I love the show, I hate that it
closed because of dumb reviews, and I wish everyone I knew could see
it.  |
| Not so happy with the main guy.... |
I had very very high expectations for the show....
Coming out of it, I had to remind myself that it was just a
touring production! The story and the
music are still unreal! However, the pitch, the acting and the emotion were
nothing to rave about… I’m glad I saw it, even though some of the vocals were
painful to listen to. Man, did I miss Caysie Levy and Richard
Fleeshman! And not to mention the Tony nominated Da'Vine Joy Randolph!!! I would love to watch them again!!!
However,
I will say that the message of living in the moment and spending every
moment like its your last is still very much understood with the touring
show! The only two regrets from the show were 1. a couple of dumb
girls that started laughing during a scene change and couldn't stop.
They laughed the whole way through my favorite, saddest, most touching
song in the show. The whole theater couldn't believe it... They were
escorted out. (I think). 2. The main girl was too old.
After
the show Chase and I headed to an Italian restaurant across the
street. He was hungry and I don't turn down olives. So we ordered some
appetizers and a glass of wine... However, they brought us a bottle!
Y'all I mean.... I think I'm better understood in Germany than in
Scotland!!!
Anyway, we drank it and ate and then headed out! Of
course.... that is easier said than done!! On the way out the door I
joke about our bus being the one that was passing... but I was right.
We chased it, but there was no point!!! After consulting the board, we
realized that it was also the last bus.... Soooo we had to walk. Half
way home we hopped on a bus that took us a bit closer and then walked
the rest of the way home. We arrived at 12:30 and since we didn't want
to wake up Keith and his wife, who I legitimately never saw, we snuck
around quietly.
On
Sunday morning we woke up at 8 and hurried to get ready. In the midst
of the process I heard Keith chanting in his study with some lit candles
(maybe in Japanese, I couldn't tell)... no he's not Japanese, but his
wife is.... After leaving the key, we took the bus and headed out to
Princess Street. There we headed to the train station where we bought
breakfast. Once again I realized my inability to understand some
Scottish accents. After ordering a bagel with cream cheese, the woman
said something to me. Now... I am beyond used to this happening in
German, but when I say yes or no... they usually respond and assume I
understood. In this case... I said yes and she said.. "miss, I asked
what kind of bagel you want." GREAT!!! Love looking like an idiot!
Hahahahah!!! After a quick breakfast standing outside in the wet and
foggy Edinburgh, I took the Express bus to the airport. Chase headed to
Starbucks to study... his train didn't leave until later that night. At the
airport I only got 1 of my boarding passes, which made me a bit nervous
considering the 25 minute wait I had in Cologne...I didn't think I would
have enough time, but my flight in Cologne was delayed!!! So I made it
in time and resolved all of my issues in German!!! I felt pretty
proud!!!
The
weekend in Scotland was the perfect way to recharge! It is easy to
forget what you're doing when you are submerged with life everyday, but a
quick trip, a night at the theater, and a lot of laughs with a great
friend quickly reminded me! I'm so glad Chase got to join in and I am
now more in love with Edinburgh than I was to begin with!! Also.... I
came back feeling better about how much my German has improved (from the
first time I was at an airport).
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