Scottish Edition...

For our purposes, imagine bagpipe music playing in the background.
I am in Inverness right now, got here this morning. So far, I love it. My hostel is weird. It has an awesome kitchen, but the shower is confounding and the room situation is strange. I get the feeling that people have been living here a long time.
Inverness is very pretty, but I love Edinburgh. I think I could happily live there. I was so... refreshed, relieved, happy,  and peaceful while I was there it made it hard to leave. It is going to be hard going back to Oslo. While I enjoy Oslo, it does not feel like home; Edinburgh does. So my grammar and spelling is probably not the best right now, I have just finished a bit of wine. Thats right, wine is an affordable price here. No wonder I like it.
A few of my favorites:

Saturday adventures...

Today I went to a little market with Robyn. It was mostly older stuff antiques and the like, but there was also some clothing and handmade goods. It was smaller than we expected, but as this was the first weekend it opened for the season I expect it will grow as summer approaches.
I got something very awesome and useful for our coming adventures to the opera.

While waiting for Robyn at Majorstuen station I saw amazing displays of national pride. There were people with the Norwegian flag painted on their face, and almost everyone had either a flag or clothing the colors of the flag on (or both). And a few lonely Swedes.

 I was confused, I know that the national day is May 17th. Then I noticed the amount of people with ski's walking around and quickly deduced that it had something to do with Holmenkollen  (thats a big ski jump). As nuts as the Norwegians are about skiing, this could be another national holiday. Seriously, I think they are worse than Canada and hockey, or India and cricket, or England and (real) football, or the US with (shit) football. Turns out that today and tomorrow are some sort of Nordic world cup for skiing. Anyhow, today was fun and intresting. I got opera glasses, loose leaf tea (yum!), and had a delicious burger and beer with Robyn at a very nice pub (double yum, eating out is such a treat).

Today was one of those laugh or die days...

Oh Vey! 

First I slept through my class (oops, not that big of a tragedy). Next, I went to the post office to pay rent. This time they told me I could not pay rent by credit card, despite me doing it the month before. 

So, pissed off about that, I went to the grocery store to buy stuff for dinner (my friend was coming over). I forgot the milk (of course). I bought some Wrigley's gum because I was frustrated after hunting through the store and not being able to find anything. and just wanted something that was a little like home. It was not, it was more like a chic-lit. 

My friend came, but at this point I made the decision to go buy milk while I was meeting her in the lobby. When we  came back I could not find my keys. I managed to get past the first two locked doors but could not get into my floor (I was pretty sure the keys were hanging in the lock on my room door). I buzzed all the neighbors to no avail, so I had to call SIO and get the caretaker to come out and let us in (for a 500 Kr fee.). As she gets in the elevator with us my neighbor also gets in. My keys were not in the door as it turns out. I found them hidden in a secret pocket. 

Dinner was a disaster. The breadcrumbs for the fried zucchini were not crumbly enough. The chicken was undercooked. I tested the smoke alarm (it does not work). I blame the stupid internet recipes. 

At least the company was good.