Rugby!

After spending a nice day relaxing and doing some homework on Saturday, Sunday started early. Some of the people here decided that it would be a good idea to attend church in Edinburgh and then make our way to the rugby game from there. In theory this is a great idea. The only problem, finding the church once you are in Edinburgh. In the states if a building looks like a church it is a church. Not so here. They may have started out as a church but now they could be anything from a theater to a library. Not to mention there are not that many ones that are Catholic. We had looked one up online but due to a longer bus ride than anticipated we were late for that one and then to top it off were not even able to find the church. We decided to work our way back to the Royal Mile and attend service at St. Giles Cathedral. It was gorgeous and they had a section of seating that had heating grates under the seats.

 Not only was the building beautiful, we attended the service with an amazing choir.
After service we got lost once again trying to make our way to Murrayfield. We had directions but they were from the Palace not the Royal Mile. Eventually we found a line of people dressed for the game and followed them. It was very interesting because they were not Scotland fans, they were fans of France! We walked all the way there amidst the French who broke out in song every five minutes.
It was crazy the stadium can hold 60,000 people and the game was sold out. I could not see any open seats and there were people everywhere.

Rugby is huge, there was flames shooting into the air as the players came out of the tunnel!

It is an interesting game to watch and by the end of it I think I understand it. I was not really able to ask the people around me about the game because they spoke French and I do not, but it was fun to listen to them talk. There were a couple highlights to the game:

• Scotland scored the first goal and was up 10-0 at one point
• There was a major injury to one of the players, I think he broke is leg
• Towards the end of the game one of the French fans streaked all the way around the field before being caught.

If you did not guess from the fact that it was a French streaker, Scotland lost. It was still a good game and a lot of fun since it was well played. If you ever have a chance to go to a game, go they are worth it.