also saw this bust of Monsignor Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo. It was so incredibly lifelike. I felt like he would start talking to me. In fact all the art work was so stunning I had a smile plastered on my face the whole time. It was really nice going to the gallery by myself because I could linger as long as I wanted at paintings and sculptures. The amount of detail that went into these pieces was incredible, I can't even begin to imagine they time these artists put into creating these pieces.
On the way to the gallery I saw so many amazing buildings and monuments. This city just feels so old. Everything you see is just so stunning it doesn't even feel real. I spent most of my afternoon just walking the streets of Edinburgh before I went back to my hostel. I even did the terrible thing of going into a Doc Martin store and falling in love with these multi-tonal sparkly boots. I need them in my life but they aren't going to fit in my suitcase. Silly me, I tried them on and now I can't stop thinking about them. After that I went back to the hostel. I sat in the lounge drinking a smoothie and doing something email on my phone. Minding my own business. This is where things get interesting...
When I came back to the hostel I was just sitting in the lounge when a group of 3 walked up and sat in the same area I was. I somehow got involved in their conversation and we went for a hike to Arthor's Seat. From the top of this hill you could see the entire city of Edinburgh. It was incredible. This group (all North Americans I might add. Vancouver, Arazona, and Seattle, Washington) was pretty much the best, most sassy group I could have come across. The 2 girl, Jenna and Jules, met the day before and were oddly enough on very similar itineraries for their trips. The guy, Cole, they met during a walking tour of the city maybe an hour before they picked me up, he has been backpacking around the entirety of Europe for 3 months already and he goes home in 3 weeks. We had the most incredible time just walking around Edinburgh together. By the end of the night I had eaten, you ready for this, haggis. Well it was haggis stuffed chicken but it was also the best think I have eaten in the UK so far. It's going to be hard to top. It was more spicy than I expected it to be but it was just so good there was nothing left on my plate. Over dinner we talked about life, the universe, and everything in it. We took the questions from an experiment done to make strangers fall in love and answered them together. This experiment was 26 questions posed to 2 strangers who are facing each other and then stare into each other's eyes for 4 minutes after, the test guaranteed the strangers would fall in love. Well... That was not our purpose but it was a ton of fun getting to know 3 complete strangers in this way. We talked about some really deep things which brought us closer as a group I think. It gave us context into each other's lives so we could see why we were all on an adventure around Europe by ourselves. We got to a point where we felt like we knew each other for a long time instead of just a few hours. We were constantly making sassy sarcastic jokes with each other. I really couldn't have asked for a better group to meet up with.
This was by far the bast experience I could have asked for and all I really wanted from the hostel life. Here's hoping I have more adventures like this one on the remaining days of my trip.
Sorry, this one is going up lat because I had formatting issues there will be more pictures added to this post when I get back to my computer... Or when I can figure it out on my iPad.
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