After our group met for dinner, Mr. Booth and I decided to go explore. We were both exhausted, but oddly enough, I still wasn't ready to sleep. We got some advice from Jennifer, one of our AHSTF liaisons, about a local coffee shop, Deacon's House Cafe. We wandered up the Royal Mile to find it, headed in the general direction of Edinburgh Castle. We ended up in the middle of the hubbub of the Fringe. There were street performers (a comedic juggler, bag lady theatre on the corner of a beautiful church, a drum circle/ acrobat performance group from Korea), and tons of folks handing out pamphlets trying to get us to go see their show. There were cashmere and kilt shops on every corner, and as we were walking we could hear languages from all over. Amazing.
We finally got to Deacon's Cafe, and walked through a gorgeous stone archway into to find this little shop on the left. The coffee was great and the desserts were to die for--we're going back. We had a chocolate caramel bar (chocolate and caramel on top of a buttery-salty graham cracker like biscuit-mmmmmm-, and a piece of coffee cake -it was three layer cake with a light whipped cream frosting and milk and white chocolate shavings--not our version of coffee cake!. We sat and enjoyed the cooling weather--wonderful. It has been much cooler--I was glad I wore layers. We saw a few high school kids walking around without jackets--big mistake!
By the time we got back to our dorms, I was ready to Skype my family (it's a great way to communicate rather than phoning--and basically free), and then crash. I slept, but the kind of sleep you do the first few nights you're out of your own space. Now we're off to breakfast and then to one of the possible venues we'll be performing at next year. I'll be video taping like crazy.
I'm hoping the sun keeps shining like it is now. I'm sure you'll read about it if it doesn't!
Mrs. Schnider
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