All in a day's walk

Hello from Edinburgh, Scotland. This is my fourth full day here, but with the amount of things we've already done, it could easily have been a week.
To best share my trip with you, i'll post stories of things that happen along the way, instead of trying to tell everything that happens.
Like last Thursday, for example.
While here, we are staying at the University of E., located close enough to everything that one can walk everywhere, but far enough that the walk may take up to 40 minutes. Thursday, Kevin, Melissa, Tara and I decided to walk downtown for a tour of the castle perched high on the hill overlooking the city. Having walked quite a bit already in the few days we'd been here, we debated taking the bus instead. Being indecisive, (note: the bus stop was half a block in the opposite direction of the walk to the castle)... anyway.. being indecisive, we switched directions 2 or 3 times, never fully making up our minds. On our second to last direction switch, we needed to cross the 4 lane street to the bus stop.
It's worth remembering that in Scotland, cars drive on the opposite side of the road.
Yeah.
You see where this is going.
Being the educated and intelligent college students we are, we decided to jay walk in the midst of this new and unfamiliar country.
We all looked both ways, decided that we could indeed make it across, and went for it. We had forgotten to factor in the light turning green, and the horde of cars rushing toward us from the opposite side we expected them to. Well, Kevin and I sprinted, making it across with time to spare. Hitting the sidewalk, we turn around to check on Tara and Melissa and found them...
In the center divider.
Now, by center divider, I mean a dotted line. Nothing more. And as Kevin and I watched them, cars rushing by on either side, the girls joined hands and led each other down along the dotted middle line, slowly heading towards the nearest crosswalk.
I'm sure the Scottish drivers got a kick out of watching the scared American girls leading each other single file down the center of the road.

PS- Wondering what exactly Edinburgh looks like? Well, on a rare sunny day, from atop the castle overlooking the city (yes we did eventually make it to the castle. Ironically, after the drama of getting to the bus stop, we walked the whole way), this is one view of the city.