Abandon Site!

The weekend, or at leat Saturday, was great. We all slept in, then I rode the bus to Kirkwall with some of my friends. We walked all aroud, went in shops, bought a few things, tried Orkney ice cream, and got fish'n chips from a Chinese restaurant that supposedly has the best fish'n chips in Orkney. (Yeah, I thought that was funny too, but after trying that meal, I don't dispute that claim. They were wonderful!) The Orkney ice cream was served in double cones, which have a normal cone-shaped bottom and then there are two tops on it. It looks like a upside down pyramid with a super 8 placed horizontally on top. It was awesome.
We also saw a blackening, which is kind of their version of a bachelor party. Traditionally a few days before the wedding, the bride's and groom's friends would cover them in treacle and soot (which made them black) and then cover them in feathers and parade them around the town. Then tie them up to the cross in the middle of the town and leave them there for I don't know how long. It was supposed to be a lesson in humility and show that those two could take on difficult times together as a couple. Today they cover the bride or groom is what looked like mud and cardboard. All sorts of rubbish, drive around town banging on the truck with the victim in the back, then cling wrap them to the cross outside of St. Magnus Cathedral. We saw several trucks go by making lots of noise, but when we passed the cathedral, a girl was wrapped up there with her friends watching. It was neat.
A field trip was scheduled for Sunday so I couldn't make it to church. I got up and made my lunch, and got in the van with everyone else but by the time we made it to Kirkwall, I was extremely sick with a migraine. It hit me so quickly. I was able to get out of the van without being sick in it, but it was very close. Our professor was meeting us there. I told him I was sick and he took me to the house where he and his colleagues are staying. I was there alone all day, which is exactly what I needed. I was sad about missing all the sites they got to see, but I would have been a lot sadder if I had gone. Well, there was just no way. I would have thrown up in the bus if I had been in it another 30 seconds. Around 9 last night my professor drove me back to our hostel in Stromness and I went to bed, but I was a bit better than I had been that morning. This morning I was still pretty sick, so I didn't go to work, but around noon all the kids showed up here and said they were told to go home because it was so rainy. The rain ruins the striations,, not to mention many of the artifacts that have been protected from it for thousands of years.
I'm feeling ok now, but honestly I'm hoping that the site is too wet to work on tomorrow because while I think I'm on the up hill slope now, migraines are evil and cunning. A day more of calmness would be safest.
Well, I don't have much to say that might interest anyone now, so I'll quit.