So today we ventured back to the fabulous city of Edinburgh, I do recommend it to all of you if you ever get the chance. GREAT touristy stuff, lots of great food, and castles. Well, we started off our day in the castle, needless to say you do a lot of walking around outside and it wasn't the warmest of days, so that was a little bit of a bummer. But there were definitely tons of cool stuff inside. We saw the Scottish crown jewels...you couldn't take pictures in there so I had to take some mental snapshots of those. Important people back then wore some pretty snazzy stuff let me tell ya! I mean, here I thought our twirling outfits were covered in rhinestones...they just don't compare now. After taking some awesome photographs within areas of the castle (which might have been offensive to some onlookers), but hey when you have sweet life size fake people acting out some awesome historical events...you just have to seize the moment and jump in it with them! I mean you're only here once, right??
After that we went to an awesome little underground pub where I had some fish and chips again...I'm obsessed. There were about 15 tvs in this place and each one had on the Chelsea vs. Manchester City "football" game on. Man I've never been exposed to so much soccer in my life. I think my favorite parts are when they try and trip each other...it makes the game so much more exciting. But seriously, I think I might be actually starting to enjoy watching that sport....
Then, my favorite part of the day...we went to The Elephant House, which is where J.K. Rowling created the most awesome book series of ALL TIME. Yes. I was there. In my Gryffindor scarf and all. I will post a picture so you can see it and believe it. I looked awesome. I also had some awesome caramel apple pie there. I will most likely revisit this great little cafe.
I also purchased an entire purple scottish kilt outfit...kilt, sash, and hat. I just need my matching knee high socks and I'm set. It's pretty legit. I've totally got Halloween covered next fall now. I would put up a picture of it, but I have yet to put the whole outfit on together...so for now I will just put up the picture of me in the hat that I walked around in most of the day. Did I look like a tourist??? Not at all..come on...I was in that sweet Scottish hat. I totally fit in and looked solid.
Some things I learned:
- If I ever have a child and take him/her to a Scottish castle when he/she is around the age of 2 and put them in a backpack type thing to carry around...I'm definitely going to make sure their facing out instead of my back. I don't know, but we kinda figured that the kid had to have been mad that all day they had to stare at their dad's back. His ticket better have been free.
- Walking around in a Gryffindor scarf in Edinburgh all day is just as fun as it sounds.
- Walking around in a Scottish hat all day is even better than it sounds.
- I'm starting to love the bag pipes...especially when stores have on bagpipe cds that are playing contemporary American hits. LOVE IT.
- Don't buy 2 for 5 pound cds...they won't work. Why I didn't figure that out before the purchase...we'll never know.
- I love the candy here. Dang it.
- Everything I buy is purple. No seriously. I think I might have a problem.
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