1 year Edinburgh Anniversary!

It has been 1 year since Heather and I stepped off the train in Edinburgh for the first time! Following the absurd, completely vertical, 100 yard climb from Waverley Station to South Bridge, it has been a continuing happy tale. Sure, there were graduate school application pains, Visa application pains, weather pains, culture differences pains, locking myself and Hunley out of the flat and paying 35 pounds to get a locksmith pains... but, I'm so grateful to have visited this place, fell in love with this place, and to now live in this place - 1 1/2 months and counting!!

Of course, along with the city, came a fateful night and one very special Lad! We haven't had a conventional dating relationship, being 4000 miles apart for 10 months after meeting and seeing each other every 3 months, so that didn't lend itself to a conventional "Anniversary" either. We have decided to follow the example of the Queen and Monarch (who has an Official Birthday and an actual birthday) and will have an Honorary Anniversary and Official Anniversary. We met on July 11th last year, and that that is the Honorary Anniversary, so we celebrated on Monday! Now, the Lad likes to joke that we met in an art gallery, when in fact it was an Irish Pub during the World Cup Final. Since Spain won last year, I made homemade tapas for dinner!! Being the thoughtful bloke that he is, he got me the BEST gift I could have asked for - ESPN America!!!!!!!!! I hope to be enjoying baseball, Pardon the Interruption, SportsCenter, College Gameday, etc., very soon...

World Cup 2010 Champions + One year after we met = Spanish tapas celebration!!

More adventures over the weekend - new friends Jack and Hunley were worn out!