Scotland

So after conquering London, mom and I got on a plane and tried to do the same in Edinburgh, Scotland in the three days we had there. We got there early early Sunday morning and really had no plans. Our hotel didn't have our room ready either so we were kind of just on our own. Luckily, I managed to book a glorious, inexpensive hotel right where all the touristy attractions were. In London, my mom's hotel room was the tiniest thing I have ever seen. It was comparable to a janitors closet... the bed was a full size bed that was pushed up next to the wall and squeezed in between a desk and a TV. My mom and I could not even be in the room at the same time because it was that small. And the bathroom... oh my goodness, it was made for midgets. The sink was abnormally low to the floor and I had to bend half way down to use the shower.  After looking at the confirmation sheet, we realized my mom had accidentally booked a "compact double room" instead of a normal double? aka a room for mini people.  Well anyways, this hotel was nice because it was made for normal sized people.

Royal High Street, located right where out hotel was, was the main dragggg in Edinburgh. There were so many cute boutiques and souvenir shops that literally had the same type of things but my mom still proceeded to think differently and made us go into ever single one, hoping to find something different.  No success..That took up most of the day. We did happen to stumble across a travel store and booked a day trip to the Highlands for Monday which was nice to have a plan since we really didn't know what to do or how to go about getting anywhere.

When check out time came along we took a quick power nap, in our own, normal sized beds. After feeling more rested we hiked to the top of Royal High Street and went in the Edinburgh Castle.... we yet again lucked out today because it was GORGEOUS and sunnnnnnny. This castle was located on a hill so it was even more lovely looking down from the city and seeing all of Edinburgh. All the buildings and churches and shops are all so old looking. I really liked it though because it was different and gave the town more character. It made me realize how new our country is because there is no where in the USA that has anything remotely close to looking like this town.

Anyways the castle was unbelievable. I really felt like I was King Arthur and the Knights of the Round table. We got to see the Great Hall where knights would actually sit for the round table and the bedrooms and other rooms inside the castle. We also got to see where the towns people would congregate and where cannons were fired!!!!!!!! I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Hmmm we came to the conclusion that everyone were way wayyyyy friendly, not that that's a bad thing at at all it was just that people went out of their way to help us. Maybe I am just not used to it because you don't really get that often in London...

Later that evening, mom and I had Scottish pub food at a local pub on Royal High Street. Can't say I really enjoyed it however every meal always comes with chips (aka fries) in the UK so really it was not that bad. It is also very pleasant going out in Scotland because everything is cheaper than London. I mean everywhere else is cheaper but it was a nice change.

We went to bed around 9 that night because we had a big big and early early day Monday. Our charter bus departed at 8:00am and was scheduled to return at 20:00pm that night. 12 hours of sightseeing and driving on a bus.