Zoo and pub

Hey everyone. In case this is your first time following me I last left off during my Christmas break from Uni, right after my friend and I got home from Paris.

Today I visited the Edinburgh zoo, one of the most famous zoos in Britain I am told. They had just gotten in a pair of pandas and so that was the main focus of the exhibit. They are beautiful creatures but my particular visit was a bit lackluster. The handlers did not let them out of their indoor exhibits and so they laid around the whole time, sleeping and having a poo.

My favorite part would probably have to be the penguins, they were the liveliest and most spirited of the animals and they were so cute waddling around. at around 2 they went on their daily "march" around the street. They have apparently done this every day for the past 50 years since one of the employees left a door open by mistake and some penguins wandered out. This walk is optional, they don't entice the penguins out with food or anything so it consists of whichever penguins want to walk. It was very cute.

I also had fun watching the big cats, the birds and the sea lion (who incidentally swam right up to me and left before I could get my camera out.)Another cool part of the zoo was the Living Links exhibit which show different animals along the links of human's evolutionary chain. (that and baby monkeys are so cute!)

For the evening's festivities I decided to go pub hopping, something I had done a few times before. I go to one pub have a drink and a chat and go on to the next. Tonight I started out with the Ghillie Dhu (very Scottish by the sound of the name.) I was a fine place, mostly full of middle aged middle class men just off of work. I stayed for a drink then left.

Right next door was a place I had been dying to try: The Rat Pack. Those of you who know me know that I am a huge Rat Pack fan, anything to do with those guys or their kind of music and I immediately begin to salivate. I had even more reason to salivate tonight because just after I arrived three of the most beautiful young men I have ever seen came in. Turns out one of them was playing a gig tonight on piano and his two friends had come to watch. We were the only ones in the pub and they invited me to join them. At some point midway through the first half hour of that set and I decided to forsake my pub hopping plans and see where this night was headed.

I seem to have had a good track record lately, first I'm hanging out with two gorgeous guys at a rugby game, now it's three in a piano bar, fingers crossed for four tomorrow!

But seriously, I had absolutely the best time singing along and talking and cheering and making merriment with everyone. If I had not met them, I would have probably gone home early and been in bed by 10, how boring. Instead I stuck around enjoying the company and the music. Three hours later the set was over and it was time to head home. They invited me back to their place, just a train ride away near Glasgow, and I was tempted but had to decline. They generously dropped me off at my place, so I didn't have to spend money on a cab, and went on their way. I was hoping for a kiss goodnight from one of them but alas... not tonight. But who knows what the future will bring? I got lucky tonight, I wandered into the right pub at the right time, maybe I'll get lucky again.

and for tomorrow...Christmas Market in Prince's Street Gardens.

Ta ta for now.