Monday, October 26, 2009

Edinburgh: City of the Castle, Writers and the Dead pt.1

This weekend I went to Edinburgh with two other Americans, Krista and Brian. Before I get into anything else, I want to start with a little picture story because this will be the most exciting to some certain people I know read this.

We went here:



Drank this:



And found this:



!!!!!!!!!!!!

We went into this cafe called The Elephant House, obviously because of the sign. Apparently this is where J.K. Rowling spent a lot of time working on Harry Potter when she didn't have much money. We happened to sit at this big table with drawers in it. Anyone knowing me will know that as I got bored sitting there, I started playing with things. I opened one of the drawers and it was stuffed full of notes written on napkins, scraps of paper, postcards, etc. Some were poetry, some were memories, some were suggestions. We started digging through the notes reading some of them. It was kind of like being at The Cellar reading the Hey Yous that haven't been published yet. I mean...never mind. Anyway, I reached around to the back of the drawer and pulled out this one. It was amazing. What a great moment. We put it back in the drawer before we left so that maybe other people will find it someday.

I will post more about Edinburgh later, possible in pt. 2 of this post.

1 comment:

  1. SDLKSJFOISJFDLNDFIUWAEODISJLDFOI;IDFOISFHLJKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I think maybe you know how I feel about this. Also, I really appreciate that you left it there so someone else will find it. Did you write anything to add to the drawer? Also, that looks like a seriously hot tasty beverage.


    Also, Mika was last night and he was AMAZING. The venue was WAY better than freshman year and we had fantastic seats in the front row of the balcony. And Megal Hugel met him. And the opener was some cute, twitchy, throaty British dude named Gary Go. Actually quite attractive. And he rocked back and forth and moved around a lot when he sang and Katherine and I thought of you and your figitiness, particularly when you're talking about something really exciting. Like the Elephant House.

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