We're here!

After 16 + hours of traveling, and watching great movies on Continental Airlines which we definitely recommend flying overseas, we have finally arrived in Edinburgh.  We are so late getting this blog update out due to our lack of #1 our own computer, and #2 the internet. 

When we arrived in Edinburgh, we took a cab to Brandlyn’s uncle’s friend’s mother’s house.  It was a beautiful house, and the hospitality was just great.  We had tea when we arrived and after playing games with our hostess’s family, we ate a wonderful lunch consisting of chicken, peas, carrots, potatoes, and parsnips.  Oh yes, did we mention this was the middle course?  Our first course consisted of melons, while our third consisted of Scottish cheeses, oatcakes, ice cream, and a fruit salad.  It was a great first meal in Scotland for us.  Later that day, we went to my Uncle’s friend’s home where we stayed for the next 3 nights before we moved into our flat.  Their names are Adam and Amanda, and they are about the nicest people we have ever met.  After Brandlyn broke their sink and stopped up their toilet (which they say happens all the timeor at least that what they told Bran) they still put up with us and fed us.  While in their care and company, we had more interesting Scottish foods.  One of them being chicken liver patte on toast which was excellent!  Brandlyn was also brave and tried the one thing she said she wouldn’t which was Black Pudding.  She liked it, but isn’t in a hurry to try it again and probably won’t be stocking it in her house to feed to visitors, although it really wasn’t bad. 

We may now move on to tonight.  Tonight is September 1^st.  We have just moved into our flat after walking hours back and forth getting our key and other things sorted out around the town.  We are pre-typing this blog because we still have no internet connection due to lack of a cord, and we are not sure if our phone works properly because we have to register it to call anyone not in this building, but we can’t register it until we register our internet.  It is all quite ironic.  We went to buy a cable for our internet today, but oddly enough in this big city, most stores close at 5:30.  Restaurants and grocery stores stay open late, as well as pubs, but not regular stores.  Roswell has one up on them so far on that!

As for the flat we live in.  Despite it’s dark corridors, it is still pretty dark in the flat itself, which will probably drive a certain electrician crazy.  For now, it works very well.  The only bill we pay here is electricity, which is nice, however everything uses electricity.  We have just learned that in our bath/shower, the bath works and heats up just fine, but in order to turn on the shower, you adjust your heat by a knob in the shower, but you pull a cord that is by the bathroom door to turn on the shower.  For hours we have been trying to figure out what this random cord is.  Now we know.  We now realize it will cost us money to take showers, but no money to take baths.  It is all quite interesting, and I have a feeling we will start taking more baths. 

As for the temperature here, we have been sweating.  Let us just say that it is not hot.  It is probably 60 degrees during the day, and when the sun is on you it feels hotter.  We have been sweating however, because everything is uphill.  Literally, our flat is at the bottom of two hills. We’re not complaining, it is a fantastic workout, however it does bring about difficulty of how to dress.  Jacket or no jacket? Anyway, that is all for now.  Next stop, Haggis!