After we left Ellie's house we took the trip up to Scotland for a couple nights, and that was a great deal of fun. The hotel was nothing special, but we found a few good restaurants and had an awesome time at Edinburgh Castle and Stirling Castle.
One night we got to dinner a little late, so we ate out of a grocery store, and I got my chance to have Haggis, which is awesome. I'll be honest though, haggis isn't nearly the horror dish people make it out to be. It was like ground beef, but tasted like sausage. The weirdest part of haggis is basically the sheep lung, but everything else is parts of an animal that lots of people eat. But we also had salad and potatos and chicken for Jessi.
Anyway, the castles were great. Edinburg castle is on a great sharp cliff face overlooking the whole town, and has a really cool war memorial on the top. We enountered a pretty funny Scottish tour guide, who talked about the parts of the castle and how they were used when the Scots fought the English, or when Scots fought Scots to practice fighting the English, etc etc etc. We also saw the Scottish Crown Jewels, and the stone of destiny; the stone upon which all Scottish royalty much be crowned, that was stolen by England and put under the English throne, that was given back on the condition that it's brought back for all royal coronations. Cool stuff.
Stirling was great fun as well, as a day trip, it was a decent walk from the metro station, and to me it looked like it was bright pink. When we got closer it's more of a pink-gold color, which I thought was weird, but when we got up to it, they explained that it was the original color the king and queen had it painted. A lot of the castle had actually been furnished to be close to the way the castle would have been.
We did hit a bit of rain in Scotland, the first we really had in the trip, but we certainly weren't soaked. The UK had perfect weather for us, really, despite all the advice to prepare for massive downpours. A hurricane actually hit Scotland the day after we left, so that was a bit of luck.
It was great fun.
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