went to cramond to skate along the promenade. lucky it was a nice day. and not too strong of winds, and the winds were going in the opposite direction from the last time i was at cramond. it has been far too long since i went to cramond to skate. but i again realized why; it takes so long to get there and back. just can't work that into an everyday exercise.
decided to treat myself to having a lunch from the wanna burger place. a legit american experience that was. had a nice, normal burger, fries of an american persuasion, and an A&W rootbeer float. delicious! plus there was american baseball on the tv -orioles against the red sox. and a student discount. very enjoyable.
decided to go to the art museum and to calton hill for the afternoon. so brittany and i headed first to the library so i could drop off my books (and pay my fine in tiny change, making the guy really appreciate me i'm sure). then walked down to the art museum. there were a lot of people on the royal mile, which clearly indicates i'm not ready for the onslaught of festival people. (let's just hope they're willing to fill out surveys.) went through the scottish section of the art museum.
it's nice to re-look at some of the scottish painters' interpretations of the scottish landscape after living here. while i could appreciate their beauty before (we saw most of the exhibit the first time we came up to edinburgh), i wouldn't have been able to see/pick out/notice/ appreciate the true likeness to the specific and distinct scottish nature of the landscapes. i think my favourite was the same piece though (and now i can't remember the painter or title). walked through the other floors as well.
from there we walked down princes street and up to calton hill. such a lovely day (lucky me), although on the chilly side for my normal experience of july.
we walked around the paths and then climbed the 170 steps of the tower.
a very cool view from the top all around. the ball drops at one (to match the o'clock cannon) for the ships on the forth, so i still want to go around that time to catch that. but i'm glad we climbed/went through the tower since we hadn't yet. (it was between that and climbing up to arthur's seat - but weather/wind wise i'm glad we went to calton hill.
we didn't exactly time things right so we actually had a bit of time before needing to meet at the restaurant. so we wandered through george/rose street to find this pub that has a cool inside that i hadnt seen. after finding that (we didn't stay) we went and hung out at the bookstore and then went to the restaurant.
becky and jane-marie met us for another delicious mexican meal.
i'm really glad we found tex mex II as everything i've had there is fantastic. it really is the best mexican option here. it's too bad i want to eat there all the time now. dinner was really great. and we walked home after.
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