I went to Edinburgh for Christmas this year to visit with my friend Justin Ross and his wife Shannon. I hadn't seen Justin since he and Shannon moved to Edinburgh from Sacramento over a year ago, so this was a nice chance to catch up and spend the holidays with friends.
I arrived early Friday afternoon and met up with Justin later that day. Shannon was tied up cooking. Justin and I grabbed some coffee and chatted for a while, catching up. Unfortunately for the dinner plans, I was pretty wiped out for some reason (HINT: A bit of foreshadowing here) and ended up skipping dinner to crash early at my hotel.
Saturday, all three of us met up at the German Market. Besides wandering through the market, we also toured one of the art museum's that the Market is right next to (I think it was the National Gallery), and Justin and Shannon went on some rides. We all then grabbed some coffee, went to Justin and Shannon's flat to chat for several hours, and then went out for very nice French dinner. Feeling a bit tired still, we split up after that. After resting up at my hotel for a bit, I decided that since the sprinkles of rain seemed to have stopped that I would go out and try some night photography. After a bit of that I went back to the hotel and crashed, looking forward to a nice Christmas day with Justin and Shannon and our planned Thai food for dinner.
Unfortunately, Christmas day did not get off to a good start. I woke a bit after 6am feeling VERY ill and nauseous. This continued through the day getting worse and worse. I cancelled all plans with Justin and Shannon and spent Christmas day holed up in my hotel room with a raging fever, constant severe nausea (that on occasions led to what you expect nausea to lead to), and the sorts of aches and pains you also expect in that type of situation. It was a thoroughly miserable day in which I hardly ever got out of bed. I tried to eat some food and quickly realized that was a VERY bad idea. And I was really worried that I would still be so sick the next day that I would not be able to make my flight back to Poznań.
Luckily, despite a 3am wake-up call from my body that was similar to the 6am call the day before, by around 8am I was up, packed, and feeling like if things went just right, I could make it home. I lucked out at the Edinburgh airport and was checked in and through security almost directly (honestly, I think it was the fastest time checking in and through security I've ever had). After a couple hours of waiting I got to boarded onto my flight and took off. A longer wait through passport control on returning to Poland and eventually I got back to my apartment, rapidly feeling worse.
I managed to eat some semi-solid food (yay yogurt) and keep it down, and promptly crashed for 14 hours of fitful sleep, still with a fever going. After getting up today and feeling much better, I was shocked to find I had lost 11 pounds in 2 days. So lots of water and mild food today, and hopefully I'll be better soon. Now I just hope my New Years turns out much better than my Christmas day went.
Have a wonderful New Year's everyone!
** Check back in a day or so, and I'll start posting some of the pictures from Edinburgh after I have processed them.
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