October 1

Woke up to 32 degrees and dry clothes - finally. I made some calls and located my missing scarf (I did have to clearly identify the scarf. I said it was black with tan plaid throughout. Nope. Try again. Black with orangey-tan plaid that was left(probably) under the table in the back at (roughly10:30 pm last night). Success. At some point today I am getting custody of my scarf again. Got organized and headed to Hamilton’s for breakfast. Ryan, Jen and I had our first coffee of the day and Fuzz had his first gin of the day. Had breakfast and then came up with a game plan for the day. Jen and I are going shopping at the boys are headed to the Surgeon’ Hall Museum. You know there is some blood and gore involved when the boys are interested in going to a museum. Mind you, it could be a Robbie Burns Museum and they would choose that over shopping. 

So Jen and I did some credit card damage in Edinburgh, without a forethought to our already bulging suitcases that not only had to make it back into our Skoda chariot but also another 4 flights, another country, 5 vehicle transfers AND 3 TRAIN RIDES! But more about that later. Met they boys and my missing scarf at August37 again. Except the boys weren’t there. So there was sat, had a drink and waited, and waited. We were about to call the Canadian Embassy when who appears? Our boys-bubbling with excitement about the various diseases they saw at the Museum (apparently syphilis and tuberculosis were big sellers) and then they were out on the street watching a street performance where a man was swallowing a sword (insert all inappropriate jokes here because we heard them all). We also had to hear about what a pain in the ass it was to go all the way back to the Tolbooth (it was a bit of a walk out of the way) to retrieve my scarf (also along the way Ryan discovered the price ($83)) so there was additional grumbling. We went for a delicious supper at Monteith’s (which ironically was beside The Tolbooth - so the detour the boys made was unnecessary-again, we heard about it). The supper, the ambiance and the service was so good. So were the 4 wine glasses we parted with. 

Our last walk down the the hill and packed our bags. Pretty sad for this chapter to be over.