The Fringe Festival

Just got back home from the Fringe Festival. It is the world's largest art festival. There was quite the variety of people doing performances there today. The festival is held all over the city in different venues, but on the Royal Mile, there are stages and performers giving previews of their shows. They attract quite the crowd, that's for sure. I came across a sign that was posted for the City of the Dead Graveyard Tour. Apparently, this tour has the only access to the Covenanters Prison, lair of the world famous Mackenzie Poltergeist. Apparently, this ghost is responsible for hundreds of 'attacks' on the tour and is now the best documented supernatural case in history. I wonder if the ghost enjoys 'messing' with tourists? I am thinking of doing this eventually, not sure when though.

So a few years ago, I saw a special on TV about this lady from South America that had hundreds of facial piercings. Not that you can recognize the face, but I am pretty sure the same lady was at the Fringe Festival on the street. I also saw a famous actor (which I was not expecting). A few years back, I met him while on vacation in Puerta Vallarta at the resort we stayed at. There was a huge celebrity event and there were hundreds of celebrities there. Anyway, the man who I was only inches from today was Alan Cumming. You'll have to Google search some pictures, a lot of people don't know who he is. Anyway, I took the one picture of him, he had 3 other people with him and they were stopping at different places outside and doing mini photo shoots or something. I have never been handed so many pieces of paper before either! Every few steps I took, there was a person handing me a piece of paper with their show information. I picked up the Fringe Festival book that gives all of the show dates and times, so I will now have to research which shows I want to see. There are quite a bit of comedy shows and Janeane Garofalo is here as well doing shows.

There were a bunch of signs in the mall today as part of the festival that were really funny. I photographed most of them. Well, Monday is the official 'start' date for school. I will be registering myself and getting my student ID card on that day. Most of this next week is going to be introductory stuff. There will be a tour of the veterinary centre, a day on teaching students how to use the computer system at the university, etc. I think I will also be back at Langhill Farm in a couple of weeks. It is nice that I have already spent a week at the farm because I will not be as clueless about milking as a lot of the other students will be. Hope everyone's weekend is going well!

The Fringe Festival 2009