Another week down and only two left in the semester. My how time flies when you have essays due. Luckily for me I'm a very proactive person when it comes to writing papers, and I know it takes me forever. So right now I actually only have one of three papers left to complete (and its mostly done). That means that the next two weeks can be devoted to wine and soaking up the sun.

Its a beautiful sunny day here, about 50 degrees outside, and since its Saturday I am heading off to the Farmer's Market with a group of friends. Another market, another angus burger... but wait! Not this week. Sadly there was only one burger left, so I willingly let my friend have it. I ended up having the angus sausage. Just as good as the burger, although a little bit harder to eat while walking around.

After the market, we did our normal walk around the Grassmarket. Today they were having a peace rally! It was kind of fun. They were singing and cheering on a strange woman wrapped in a blanket, and even handing out sandwiches and puddings. Very odd. We couldn't even figure out what kind of peace they were hoping for.


So not only was the street full of hippies, but tonight is the six nations rugby game of Scotland versus England. So the streets are full of guys and girls in the red and blue colors. Pubs were packed already. It will be interesting to see how the game turns out. Regardless its going to be an awesome night to be out and about.

It's finally spring in Edinburgh, so we are seeing crocuses everywhere. It makes me so happy to see the purple and yellow all over the ground. We took a big walk through the Meadows since it was so sunny, and the flowers were amazing.

On the way back to our building we stopped into Starbucks to take the Via Challenge. You get a mini cup of filtered Colombian and Via instant Colombian and have to figure out which is which. They actually tasted almost the same so it was tough.... but I guessed it correctly! Yay! For taking the challenge we got a free tall coffee and a coupon for Via. To reward myself I bought myself a nice latte and picked up a pack of Via for the next couple weeks.

Tonight we're doing a big birthday party in New Town, so it's back to essay writing until then.