A Castle and Some Chickens

Yesterday evening a couple friends and I walked up the Royal Mile to Edinburgh Castle. I got a few pictures of it lit up at night. We're planning to go back Friday afternoon and explore inside, so hopefully I'll have some picture to put up afterward. It certainly was beautiful and I can't wait to see more of it.

I've been able to settle into my room a little bit more the past few days. It's starting to feel a bit homier. It also helps that I finally did a big grocery shopping trip and now have happy, full cabinets. I made a very exciting discovery the other day when I was looking out onto the courtyard behind my building. There are CHICKENS living there! I made more sense once I looked at the map and realized the buildings behind me are Veterinary Science buildings. There were three of them (all very lovely) trekking about in the snow this afternoon. It was a very grand looking chicken expedition.

Well I'm going to try and get some reading done and scrounge up some supper. A little bit later a friend of mine from Macalester and I are going to check out The Water of Life Society, a student club devoted to learning about and sampling different kinds of whisky (they spell it without the 'e' here) from all over Scotland. After all, when in Rome...