Iris and I both spent the morning relaxing and doing some laundry. We met around 2:30 PM in order to take a walk around Beaver / Elk Lake, where we arrived around 3:20 PM. Calling it a 'walk' might not be appropriate - the path around the whole lake was about 10 km long. We only did about 8 km, though.
It was raining most of the time, which still didn't keep us from enjoying the scenery. We chatted a lot and after a while, we also started trying to sing children's songs or to recite peoms and ballads, which was really fun.
Even though we were just walking around the lake, we somehow managed to get lost and walk in the wrong dircetion after about three quarters of the way. We realized our mistake after a few hundred meters, though.
It took us about 3 hours to get to the bus stop and by then the sun was just about to set. In fact, we were quite fortunate to arrive at the bus stop when we did because it got pretty dark pretty quickly now and finding the way in the dark would have been really tough. We still had to sit and wait for the bus for a little while, though.
It was later than we had expected when we arrived in Downtown. Thus, instead of buying ingredients to cook dinner, we went to 'Second Slice Pizza' and had two slices of pizza each. Afterwards, Iris went to the hostel and I went home in order to put on some dry clothes and to relax a little bit before leaving again.
'Mad' would probably be a good word to describe the play tonight at Craigdarroch Castle. It was called 'Arkenham Abbey' and told the story of Batman / the Nightwatchman being at the mercy of the Joker / the Fool and other insane villains. The actors were amazing, they played their roles perfectly and you had no trouble believing that they were mad. Standing right next to some of the characters like BlackJack for example was even a bit intimidating at times.
I especially enjoyed the songs they were singing. There was one song which got stuck in my head where all of the villans were laughing in a weird way in the background while the Fool was singing to the melody of their laughs.
During the play we moved around the different levels of the castle. Parts of the play took place on the stairwell while other parts were performed in a small room or a big hall. Even moving from one location to another was quite fun as the characters of the play treated us like hostages and instructed us where to move.
All things considered, I really loved the play even though I didn't know much about Batman.
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