My Day Off

A day off work was just what I needed. I actually got up at my normal time but it's much easier when you're not going to work to get out of bed. Lynsey and I had planned to go to the Chinese Consulate to get our visas for China so armed with my passport and new horrendous passport pictures I hopped on the bus out to Corstorphine Road. It's actually right at the back of Murrayfield and much closer than I thought to town, handy for future reference. The visa application office is only open between 9am and midday so was actually fairly busy. We got the suitable forms and filled them out with little hassle and waited in the queue. Unfortunately you have to specify on the form what your occupation is and whilst lab technician was fine working for the media turned out to be a bit of a problem for Lynsey. Hopefully a letter from her boss stating that she is not a reporter will do the trick, fingers crossed anyway. My form was taken along with my passport and I was told to come back on Thursday morning, I hope this is to pick up my visa! We formed a worst case scenario plan B over coffee but hopefully it won't come to that.
After a coffee and chat we strolled into town and I went to Boots to pick up some sun cream for the trip. I went for factor 30 and it was buy on get one free so I picked up a bit of a bargain. I actually got a bit sunburnt yesterday at the football, it wasn't even that sunny but it only take a few rays for me to get a pink tinge! At least i have some colour in my cheeks for once :)
This afternoon I finally got round to calling my contact Helen at Epilepsy Scotland for a chat. It's been months since we first emailed each other and it's taken me that long to find the time to call. It was great to finally put a voice to the emails and hopefully I'll manage to pop through at some point to actually meet the team. They do such a great job and it would be great to put a name to the voice and emails.
No training today, need a day off after my run yesterday. Back to work tomorrow then hopefully run home, less than a week until the 10k now- eeek!