seaside St. Andrews with Sarsh

Not that we haven't been having a really great time on our vacation, but this is the first stop of the trip where Heather knew the person we were staying with ahead of time. Everyone else has been people I've worked with over the past few summers. Here in St. Andrews, we're staying with our friend Sarah, who we both went to summer camp with. It made for a pretty amusing time!

We walked around the city all day, checking out all kinds of things, including the gorgeous cathedral ruins, the pier, the castle ruins, the old golf course, and the beach. Heather bought some boots on sale in a shop, so we all had to dress up along with her to go to the student union. We made omelettes for dinner with gorgeous peppers like the ones I buy at home all the time, except they were a lot cheaper since Scotland is a little closer to Holland. We went out with some of Sarah’s friends again, and turned Never Have I Ever into a game that got us all a little silly by the end of the night. We stopped by a chip shop (French fries), where I mentioned to Heather that the very fit (good looking) boys behind us had bumped into me, which she turned into grabbed my butt, and started this whole, hilarious tirade about that and the fact that they wave two fingers instead of one, and called underwear “pants”. It was really, really, really, really funny!

wandering around Edinburgh

Today we toured around Edinburgh! We saw the castle, St. Giles’ Cathedral, the Parliament Building, a cemetery, and the acropolis (did you know Scotland had one of those? I did not!) overlooking the whole city and the Firth of Forth. We had a lovely dinner out before taking the local train to St. Andrews. It turns out, the train after ours derailed. Awesome timing. We got to St. Andrews and met the lovely Sarah Kniesler! We ended up out at a local pub with a few of her friends, where I tried some Tennet's, a Scottish brew, while everyone else had cocktails. Before we left, she asked the building warden for a camp bed (cot). When we got back, waiting by the door was a cot (crib). We got this straightened out.