Jamie Visits Edinburgh

Just a few days after we returned from Copenhagen, Jamie came to visit me! I was so excited for her to come and stay with me for the whole week of thanksgiving! Poor thing though, her flight got delayed so she didn’t get to me until Saturday afternoon instead of Saturday morning. I went to pick her up at the airport and of course they lost her bag. She was a bit of a mess but I helped her pull it together… you know after she cried for a while <3

That night we brought her out to Finnegans Wake (aka the best bar/our favorite bar in Edinburgh). She was quite a trooper being so tired but still coming out!! She got to have quite a ~real~ experience, as we were bringing her along with us to do everything that we usually do anyway. The next day we went to the Christmas market.

On Monday she got to come to class with me (lucky) and then we went to ASDA, which is basically Scottish Walmart. We were prepping to have a full thanksgiving dinner on Tuesday night so we had to buy all of the ingredients to cook. We got home and Susan and I cooked up some stuffing (with nana helping via FaceTime, of course). After we went out to dinner with Jenna and Molly we went back to Finnys for a few drinks. Jams was very excited to be able to drink at the bar!!

The next day we went to Arthur’s seat with Anna, because you shouldn’t go to Scotland without going to Arthurs seat!! It was really foggy and drizzly though so we didn’t make it all the way to the top because you couldn’t see anything and it was sooo slippery. Jamie fell in the mud on the way back down which we all found very amusing hahahha. This was our thanksgiving night, so once we got home I took charge in the kitchen on making the turkey and some of the fixings. We had friends over and got to have a whole thanksgiving meal! It was nice that we were able to celebrate thanksgiving even in a country that doesn’t celebrate it, and so far from our families.

On Wednesday, Jams, Mary, and I went to the Christmas market again and shopped around. We bought some Christmas presents and went on one of the rides that they have at the fair. It went up so high and spun around I was basically shitting myself it was so scary!!! We had one last Edinburgh hoorah that night, as we brought Jamie out to our favorite club for their theme night of the week “love Wednesdays”. A true classic!!!

It was so much fun having Jamie in Scotland and being able to show her around!! She continued on with us to our next trip which I will address in the next post :) until then; #stayclassyscotland