Loch'd: Pictures of my room, finally. And discussion of food.

I have the beginnings of a cold, or maybe it's just allergies, or maybe it's the plague (as my friend Becca calls it). Anyway, I'm trying to not let it ruin the fun. My weekend was rather uneventful, other than finishing up my essays and turning them all in on Monday. Now all I can do is wait. I'm really scared to get them back. On Saturday night, me and some girls I go out with quite a bit went to an organic, gluten free, sort of health food resturant. It was a tad expensive, but very, very good. I had a frittata, it was delicious. They also had blended juices, I had one with blueberry, passion fruit and apple. I think me and Becca may go back sometime to get juice and a dessert, we didn't try the desserts when we were there on Saturday.

Last night my Aunt Mary and Uncle Rich took me and my friend Julia out to dinner. They were in town because Rich was on a business trip in London, but before that started, they drove up here to see first the Lake District in England, and then come to Edinburgh and see me. We were going to go to a Scottish restaurant that we had picked out on the Royal Mile, but when we got there it was closed. I'm not sure why, because I checked the hours before we left. Anyway, we picked out another place which I had actually heard of before, called Angels and Bagpipes. It was amazing. I had some sort of fish in a cheesey hollandaise sauce or something, and it came with crab ravoli. And the dessert! I had toffee sorbet and chocolate cake that was warm and delicious. It was so great to see them, to see a familiar face in Edinburgh. We had a great time, telling them about our time here in Edinburgh so far and suggesting places for them to go when they explored Edinburgh the next day. A lot of the places I suggested I haven't actually been to yet, like the Castle and Holyrood Palace. I'm going to go see them when my family comes to visit in mid March.

On Sunday, me, Becca and our friend Logan went shopping on Princes Street. My belt had recently broken, and I'm also looking for a new pair of trousers (you can't say pants here because that means underwear...so it gets you into awkward situations sometimes) because one have ripped and another one has a stain from the broken washing machine...grrr. Well I didn't end up getting trousers, but I did get a belt. The problem with shopping here is that mostly everything is quite expensive, and I am so cheap. When I go out shopping again on Thursday, I'm going to try the charity shops and hope I have luck there. Otherwise I'm just going to have to suck it up, because I have have two pairs of jeans (you can also say jeans) left.

Something I thought was sort of weird: Mexican night in the dining hall. I don't know why it was Mexican night, but they had decorations (posters that had sombreros and the word Fiesta! on them) and everything. On Chinese New Year, they had Chinese food, so that made sense. And Scottish food on Burns Night. But I'm pretty sure this was random. They had Mexican rice, nachos, and burritos. It was all actually pretty good. Especially the Mexican rice. And it was very popular. I have never seen the dining hall so crowded, there were lines for everything.

I'm going to add some pictures of my room here, because I realized I haven't done that yet.