After dinner, we hit one more Fringe Festival performance in a small, intimate venue. We went to see Chloe Radcliffe, a comedian who lives in New York City and actually was a college friend of Tim & Lynn's daughter, Anna. After that experience, we went to a huge venue to see the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
Before we came to Edinburgh, one of our friends mentioned that going to "the Tattoo" had been one of her highlights. None of the four of us had ever heard of the Tattoo before, but it turns out it is a big deal.
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is an annual series of tattoos performed by British Armed Forces, Commonwealth, and international military bands and artistic performance bands in front of the Edinburgh Castle during the month of August.
The name "tattoo" derives from a 17th-century Dutch phrase "doe den tap toe" (turn off the tap), a signal played by the regimen's Corp of Drums, to turn off the taps of their ale kegs so that the soldiers could retire at a reasonable hour.
The cast includes more than 800 people and features performers from all over the world.
The Tattoo starts at 9:30 pm in a stadium with 8,000 other people.
The whole spectacular evening ends with fireworks - such an amazing experience that we "stumbled on" just because someone mentioned it to us as we were planning what to do in Edinburgh.
We definitely packed it in today - when we got back to our hotel at about midnight, my Fitbit said I had gone 28,572 steps for the day!
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