Here We Go!
July 26/27--depending on how you look at it.
We actually arrived at the airport more than 3 hours early. This may not seem like anything extraordinary to you, but that just means you have never traveled with my roommate. He is notorious for running late—not a flaw in his character, but rather an endearing quality without which he would lose his uniquness--, which often means that we are running to catch our flights. Not this time though. We have yet to see what the return flight will be like.
Our departure flight was delayed an hour and forty minutes due to a storm in Chicago. Our time between connecting flights was an hour and thirty minutes at the start of the day. Were we worried? Yes. But everyone kept telling us that there would be no problem, until they actually took our boarding passes. The international flights, we were then told, rarely waited for late arriving connecting flights. We lucked out. This time they did wait. If they hadn’t their flight would have been nearly empty, since most of their connecting flights were delayed. We were the last passengers on, our seats had been taken by other passengers who had decided to roam, but more seats were found after some rearranging.
We arrived in Edinburgh the next morning, only half an hour late, and met friends who immediately rushed us off to Rosslyn Chapel for our first bit of touring. This chapel has a lot of history, some real some not, with strong ties to the Templars. One of the projects I am working on uses some aspects of Templar history as the basis for one sect, so I had really wanted to see the chapel. I’m glad I did.
(PHOTO to arrive soon)
From there we went to our friend’s home, and the rain hit.
We actually arrived at the airport more than 3 hours early. This may not seem like anything extraordinary to you, but that just means you have never traveled with my roommate. He is notorious for running late—not a flaw in his character, but rather an endearing quality without which he would lose his uniquness--, which often means that we are running to catch our flights. Not this time though. We have yet to see what the return flight will be like.
Our departure flight was delayed an hour and forty minutes due to a storm in Chicago. Our time between connecting flights was an hour and thirty minutes at the start of the day. Were we worried? Yes. But everyone kept telling us that there would be no problem, until they actually took our boarding passes. The international flights, we were then told, rarely waited for late arriving connecting flights. We lucked out. This time they did wait. If they hadn’t their flight would have been nearly empty, since most of their connecting flights were delayed. We were the last passengers on, our seats had been taken by other passengers who had decided to roam, but more seats were found after some rearranging.
We arrived in Edinburgh the next morning, only half an hour late, and met friends who immediately rushed us off to Rosslyn Chapel for our first bit of touring. This chapel has a lot of history, some real some not, with strong ties to the Templars. One of the projects I am working on uses some aspects of Templar history as the basis for one sect, so I had really wanted to see the chapel. I’m glad I did.
(PHOTO to arrive soon)
From there we went to our friend’s home, and the rain hit.
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