A preliminary look at bagpipes

Argh! I was just going to the kitchen to get my sandwich out the fridge. I sat down to eat it, and looking down from the window, the pipes and drums academy from New Jersey starts piping up a tune and marching around. Oh yeah! I thought tonight was just going to be an evening of writing by myself and a lovely video chat later on, but I have my own personal concert to serenade me Hmmm. Life is good.
Today was great. Breakfast was huge and amazing. Deliciously delicate croissants. And danishes, eggs, tomatoes, tea, pancakes... Okay, I didn't have all that. Just the croissant, danish, eggs, and tea. Breakfast is my favorite meal.
We held class about "new religious movements" aka cults in the cafeteria. Not quite as delicious as croissants.

Then, Dr. Hanks, Brooke, Caleb, Jaclyn and I took a cab into town. We first bought some tickets. So, the Fringe Festival is going on and a barrage of fully dressed up actors line the street forcing adverts upon all of us unsuspecting tourists. I learned only to accept the ones that came with Jelly Bellies. We bought some tickets for the afternoon, and then found the Elephant House. Oh golly-gee-wiz! It was great. I had a spinach cheesy thing, some sore of cheesecake thing, and peppermint tea.
I grabbed a napkin and started writing on it, just about how Harry Potter influenced my life and how the Elephant House may have influenced Harry Potter. It felt pretty surreal, even if the illegible green words on that napkin don't make much sense afterwards.
We then went to Edinburgh Castle. Oh, it was so cool. It looked like a snail. We found a canon, climbed on top, and looked out over the city. A photographer came up and took our picture (which we didn't buy, but we didn't feel bad because we told him we probably weren't going to buy it), and afterwards he told us about his favorite parts of the castle, like the stone of destiny and the dungeons of horrific tales of death and torture. I always like those. We traipsed about and managed to get through the frankly disappointing crown jewels in only 10 minutes although the sign says 27. Let's just say that Jaclyn knows how to slip through a queu... er... crowd. Ahem. We may have cutted.
But that was because we had a play to go see! I accidentally looked at the wrong address, so by the time we got there, I realized I had steered us wrong. That's why I normally take the back seat in directions. But, we hailed a taxi, and he got us to our play just in time. We walked in after some confusion of which room it was about thirty seconds before the play started. Dr. Hanks saved us three spots in the front row. The play was "Wonderland." It was quite wonderful. It started off with Charles Dodgson playing adventures in Wonderland with what appeared to be Alice. But then it turned out to be... Oh, I can't spoil it for you.
It was the world premiere! The Fringe festival is just too neat.
Dr. Hanks bought us ice cream afterwards. I got a knickerbocker glory as a testament to Dudley Dursley. Dr. Hanks recited a poem and had us act out the animal characters in the middle of the restaurant. A Scotsmen drinking some mead directly across from us watched with great interest. I played a pig and a turkey.
We then dispersed, and I read some Terry Pratchett in the bookstore for a few hours before catching a taxi back to the dorm where my blog post begins.