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August 6th - a relaxing day in Edinburgh

August 6th arrived and once again I managed to knock a vase of fake flowers into Cyn's porridge.  Steve actually had to go into work for a bit so Cyn and I wandered around Edinburgh and stopped into many different touristy shops.  After looking around for a bit we headed back to the Pleasance, was accosted by people giving out Mikey the Pikey fliers for a second time and met Steve.  From there we headed to...bum bum bum....the Dynamic Earth!

On the way to the museum Steve pointed out the Scottish Parliment.  It looks like an architect ran amok with all his leftover pieces from another project.  That or the building resembles something you might see in a sci-fi movie.  Ah well...perhaps it makes people feel like they don't actually have to deal with politics when they go into work?

So we went into the Dynamic Earth exhibit.  The architecture was really interesting.  The exhibits were well set up and the whole experience was enjoyable.  They set it up as though you were time travelling and exploring the evolution of the Earth and all its inhabitants as time moved forward.  It was fun and interactive although the finale was a bit anticlimactic.  Rain...as though you don't see THAT in Scotland.  Ooh!  One section was about the poles and when you walked in the room was colder than the previous ones.  They had a very large chunk of ice in the middle of the room that no one believed was real until touching it.  Anyway it was fun.

After leaving the museum we found out that it had rained (slightly ironic, ne?) and so we headed back up to the Royal Mile.  As we were walking up it started to drizzle so we stepped into a fudge shop.  As it turned out, many other people had the same idea.  We watched some fudge being made and then bought some ourselves.  From there we kept ducking into shops up the Mile until the rain abated.  Of course one place we stopped was the Museum of Children.  Meh.  It could have been better but at least it was dry.  Basically it had a lot of old and new toys behind glass.  Some stuff was supposed to do something when you put in money buuuuut they didn't work.  Ah well!

After the Museum of Children, we walked further up the Royal Mile and then watched a very entertaining street performer from New Zealand.  We stopped into a swords shop where we tried on armor and the shop employees made me demonstrate how to use nunchakus.  Fun!!  We went a little further up the Mile before needing to turn around as they were lining people up for the Tattoo.  We wandered back to George's Square to spend a little time sitting before going to see Yin-Yang, a very impressive performance that combined dance and martial arts (and weapons, yay!).  I enjoyed it a great deal, especially because I can look at some of the stuff they were doing and say that they were "okay" doing x, y, and z, but I've seen better.  I think the guys trained first as performers or dancers and then as martial artists.  Still they did a lot that I couldn't do.  Very impressive indeed.

Then?  Dinner!  Stacey tries sushi for the first time!  And to her (and everyone else's) surprise they put wasabi in the sushi.  :)  No worries though, I won't let that stop me from trying it again!  It was a full day but heaps of fun!  After that?  Steve taxied us back to the B&B and we fell asleep easily after all that walking.

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