cow intestines taste good

all of scotland smells like haggis. seriously. and bagpipe music wafts thru the streets. we are 8 floors up from street level and we can still hear them in our room.

we tried haggis the other day, and it's actually quite tasty. we wandered the streets of edinburgh, looking for trouble, and happened upon a gorgeous old building with a bar downstairs and a restaurant upstairs. we had all just woken up from a very restful nap, and spirits were high. everything was 50 times funnier than it should have been, and by the time they started bringing strange things that we hadn't ordered (they couldn't understand our american accents) we were in hysterics. no alcohol was involved.

now in glasgow, at a 9-story hostel with an italian opera singer and an ancient old man who just got back to scotland after 4 years in china and 30 years in africa.