Casey Deller:  Our flight from Newark to Edinburgh went well, outside of a Travelex debacle for one of our team members and some crying children on the flight.  The plane had some nice technology to keep us entertained, each seat had an entertainment monitor with 70 movies, plus tv shows, games etc for each person to choose from. We arrived here around 7 a.m. local time (2 am ome - time) and got rides from local rotary 'chaps' to the university, which is very nice. Edinburgh is a pretty neat City.  It has very old historic sections mixed with new architecture and modern technology. We got had access to only 2 of the 5 rooms when we arrived, so we dumped all our gear and hiked to Aurthur's Seat, a mountain for hiking overlooking the city. We hiked up to the top and the views were pretty magnificent.  We hiked down, past a church ruin site built in the 1100's. We walked through the city, past the parliament, the royal palace in Scotland and down the Royal Mile, a street which leads to the Edinburgh Castle on another hill. Great sites and architecture.  Plus the Edinburgh Fringe is going on, with most of that street closed with live theatre and other activities going on. We then toured the castle, which was very cool.  Records for numbers of photos on a trip are bound to be broken  Now we are back at the university, resting, napping (fighting off the jet lag)and getting ready for the evening. We are going to the dinner and then to the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, a bagpipe and traditional Scottish music competition; think 'marching band with bag pipes.