Beach in Scotland? Ok!

Today I took a road trip with my friends Zak and Alastair to the beach for the afternoon! We figured the weather was only getting worse and might as well push our luck and head to the shore for our last Sunday before classes began. We arrived at Gullane Beach in early afternoon to find the sun out, little wind and a gorgeous beach sparsely populated with young children running about and dogs enjoying fetch with their owners. The path to the beach revealed the most lovely, albeit pungent, floral scent and bushes of wild blackberries! Once on the beach we unanimously decided it was necessary to take off our shoes and roll up our pants and go for a stroll down to the cliffs at one end of the shore. While climbing on the rocks a curious dog stole one of Alastair's socks, however the rest of the beach trip was great! There was even a rainbow as we got in the car to leave. After piling back into Ally's car we ventured to a lunch spot in a nearby town where we all expected to get ice cream but ended up with full meals. It was nearly 6pm when we thought to finally head back to Edinburgh where Ally invited us back to his house for the evening. Ally grew up in Edinburgh and it has been nice having a good friend that can shed light on the ways of the Scotts. It was also nice to sit on a worn-in family couch and eat a home-made lemon meringue pie after a long day!

Tomorrow classes start, however tomorrow I only have one class that meets at 4pm. Thus I have the whole day to mentally prepare and clean up my room after a weekend of barely having time to put things

away. I also think I will get a gym membership tomorrow at

the Uni gym, which is conveniently located a block behind from where I live! I have heard that tomorrow might be a holiday, and the banks therefore won't be open, but otherwise I might finally take the plunge and get my new local bank account tomorrow as well (I have been trying to decide which bank to choose and am still not sure!). I have been accumulating some video footage and when I get a chance to organize and edit some clips together I will post it here!