Is this seat taken? (May 16th)

Sam had finished his essays that he needed to write the day before, so we ended up hanging out most of the day.  We headed up to Arthur's seat, which is this massive hill just outside of the old town.  It didn't look like it would be too difficult to climb when we approached it, but Sam warned me that it was quite deceiving.

Pffff, wasn't tough to climb AT ALL...if you don't count the 5 or 6 breaks we took on our way to the top.

But alas, we made it up there and found some truly spectacular views.  From up there you felt like you could see forever.  Some truly bonny and comely views (thank you Merriam Webster thesaurus).

We had spent all this time climbing up to the top of the hill, but when we got up there, there really wasn't much to do, so we ended up climbing down after about 15 minutes.

We got to the bottom and trekked through some uncharted territory for me.  We expertly calculated how long a certain tunnel was using math.  MATH!

Stopped for lunch as the Mosque Kitchen and had some Indian food.  Despite one of my good friends being Indian, I don't remember ever actually having it before.  It was pretty darn good...though we ordered way too much and I couldn't finish mine.  Even Sam couldn't quite get all of his food down and he can EAT!

Spent yet MORE time in St. Princes Gardens lounging around until we headed back to the flat.  Sam was going to visit his dad down in southern England and took off shortly there after.

That left me with pretty much nothing to do because Kaylie needed time to work on her essay that she was freaking out about...oh how I don't miss school...good thing I'm not going back there anytime soon...

So I headed out on the town and grabbed a mocha about 5 feet from where JK Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter!!!  Sure I payed about twice as much for my drink then anywhere else in town....but this was where HARRY POTTER WAS BORN!!!  Amazing!  I even got to see "Hogwarts", or at least structure that inspired it.  Other then the 4 separate towers representing the different houses, it really didn't look anything like the Hogwarts of the movies.  But it was still awesome to see.

After the mocha, I popped in my headphones and walked around town for a good couple of hours.  Because it's so far north, it doesn't get completely dark around Edinburgh until about 10 o'clock, so I had a good amount of daylight to walk around in.

I've really grown accustomed to wandering.  It's the best way to see a city, like I've probably said millions of times.

When I got back Kaylie was scarfing down a pear and was STARVING...probably should've come back a bit sooner, but I enjoyed the walk.  We headed out in search of a baked potato...which are apparently popular enough to have an entire restaurant with just baked potatoes and toppings.

Sadly, they were all closed, but we did manage to find some good food and then we called it a night.  Good times...