Beginning of Week Two

{ November 17, 2009 @ 6:48 pm } · { Uncategorized }

It’s currently Tuesday evening, so here’s another update… I had a really, really busy weekend!

It all started with the Ghost Tour on Friday night. We were led in to the Edinburgh Vaults at around 9:00. Scary stuff. Our guide told us stories of how murderers, thieves and body snatchers used to use the vaults as hideouts and workplaces, before he made one of the rooms completely dark… We were all really freaked out. After we finished that part of the tour, we went up to a room where we had drinks while our guide told us more stories. That was seriously the scariest bit. He told us a story of his worst experience.

He had been on a midnight vigil (12-6am) down in the vaults, and whilst checking them before he left, he felt as though someone was staring at his back intently, watching him angrily. He said ‘there is nothing here’ out loud and finished his work and went up. The next morning, a woman off the street that he had never met before told him he couldn’t go back down there, because ‘he is angry at you, you said he didn’t exist.’ He went down again that night and he was trying to do his act, but everyone was looking at something behind him. He turned around to see the last three candles in a long line of them blown out, and then the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, until the last one went out, and then his own went out, as if someone had been walking down the row of them putting them out with a snuffer. He nearly fainted but pulled himself together and then someone in the group fainted. By the time he had taken her up and come back down, another two people fainted. He took them and then went back down and another two had fainted. Suffice it to say he got the entire group out and didn’t return to work for 6 months.

We got out of the tour at about 10:30 and had to leg it to Louise’s place in the pouring rain. None of us had umbrellas, it was rainy and horrible, and we had to run for about 15 minutes to get there… I’ve never been happier to see a house in my life!!! 

On Saturday morning we went to Edinburgh Castle. It was fantastic! We went to the War Memorial, St. Margaret’s Chapel, the Royal Scots Dragoon exhibit and The Royal Apartments where James VI was born, and we also saw the Scottish Honours and the Destiny Stone which was very cool. Sadly my camera was having a spaz and decided not to work so I’m going to have to ‘borrow’ Gabby’s photos.

After we did the castle we went down to George Street and met up with Georgia, Becky, Isa, Louise, Anna and Jess and had lunch. We then went to Jack Wills, Top Shop, French Connection, Miss Selfridge and Office Shoes… I managed not to buy anything haha.

Isa, Georgia, Anna and Jess went back to Durham on the train and Gabby, Becky, Louise and I headed up to the Royal Mile for the tour of Mary King’s Close. It was also really good and Gabby was still scared from the night before. The tour went through Mary King’s Close and a few others with more historical details than the Ghost Tour.

After the tour we went home and got ready to go out for dinner at the Dome for Laura’s birthday. The Dome is a really beautiful old Restaurant and Bar with really nice Christmas Decorations up.

On Sunday we celebrated Laura’s birthday and I got to watch the new episode of Doctor Who in the evening (yes, small things excite me)

Yesterday was a relatively normal day and I had my first Goodfoodology lesson today, which was pretty interesting as a local butcher came in and showed us different cuts of meat and how to cook them.

I’m looking forward to the week ahead as we’re scheduled to go to the Gallery on Friday afternoon before I’m being subjected to New Moon on friday. We’re then going to the Rugby on Saturday…

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