The long long long walk

It is now confirmed...Janna wants to kill me. She came very close recently. It all started with our normal routine of going for a weekend walk. But this was the walk that never ended. By the time we had explored the chain of places she wanted to see we were seven miles from our flat. Now a seven mile loop isn't too bad. But this time seven miles was the halfway point. For about four dollars we could have jumped on a bus, but being a man, I was determined to get back on our own (but not without a lot of complaining). OK my manhood had nothing to do with it. I am just a tight ass, and Janna bribed me with a nice juicy prize. It was an amazing prize that I had gone without for a long while..............


Shortly after the walk started we had a delay. When I see a crane I have to stop. The cool thing was that this crane was putting another crane on top of a building. OK so most of you would be bored by this, but I was fascinated for a good long time. While I stared at the crane Janna looked at some of the shops. You know you aren't in Montana anymore when the shops are selling skirts for guys.



The main part of the walk was was along a canal that starts way out of town and concludes near the city center. It was dug about 200 years ago by prisoners and was used to transfer goods into the city until the 1960's. Now it is just used for recreation.



Parts of the canal seemed rather counter intuitive.



After following the canal for a few miles we changed course and walk through the park following the Water of Leith. A long time ago much of the park was some lords backyard and there are leftovers such as little stone buildings and open areas. The Water of Leith is the "river" that runs through Edinburgh. We would call it a creek, but it is their country. At one time there where many flour mills and other factories that got their power from the river. There was even a little museum dedicated to the "River". This old Scottish guy with a thick accent named Jack (he seemed surprised someone came into the museum) decided we needed a personal tour. So a 1/2 hour stop turned into about 2 hours of us saying, "could you repeat that".



At the end of the Water of Leith park we began the return trip towards my prize.... It was a rather hurried trip as I was very anxious to the grab buns of my prize, but we did stop for a few pictures.

And finally as darkness fell Janna and I looked deeply into each other's eyes and I softly whispered, "would you pass the ketchup". We achieved our goal and I got my long awaited prize...........a Big Mac and fries (chips). America Rocks.