St. Andrews

I finally made it to the one place I wanted to visit...St. Andrews. The birthplace of golf! Since it's a rather small town and they have no train station, we had to go by bus. After meeting an oh so lovely bus driver...(not) and having a rather scary charter bus drive, we made it to St. Andrews. We first went to eat at a local pub on their main street, where the bar tender asked Cati if she would like "chips" with her meal. Of course, we've already figured out that chips are fries, but since she hestitated for maybe a second, the guy looked at her and said "would you like fries with that" in an attempted American accent. Thank you. But the guy was actually nice so we couldn't be too offended! Anyways, lunch was great and we headed to the castle, which they were closing down to take a lunch break, so we headed off to the beach! We took some pretty awesome pictures I've gotta say. I think we've got sort of a jumping theme going on, I'll have to think of some new ones here soon... But the views are amazing! I've never seen such a beautiful place. It really was unbelievable!

Anyways, we went out to this little sand bar thing to take some pictures...and we were having so much fun that we did not realize the tide rising and surrounding our little "island". Before we know it, we were pretty much trapped out in the North Sea. Ok, so it wasn't that life threatening...but we were kinda trapped and had to figure out how to run through the water to get back to some dry land.

After that adventure we made it to the golf course which is just off the beach. We walked around there for a bit and took some pictures on the "Old Course". That was pretty awesome to be on as well. So many people have golf there, it was just incredible! We ventured into the gift shop to spend all sorts of money on souvenirs of course :)

Then we managed to get back to the castle where the views were even more spectacular. The castle isn't much of a castle anymore but of just ruins. But none the less it was really cool to explore. Especially the mine shafts underneath....not so much. I definitely was anticipating either the walls to cave in on top of us or some guy with a saw to run out in a mask. Needless to say we were all anxious to get out of there.

We took some more jumping pics in the castle as well...we had a blast. Definitely the most fun trip I've had so far!

After that we made it to the cathedral and climbed the "tower"....to what I assumed heaven because we walked SO many winding stairs. My thighs were burning by the time we got to the top we basically almost all collapsed once we reached it. But again...of course it had some amazing views....

To end our trip, we ended up in a little ice cream parlor where we had the BEST sundae I've ever had in my life... a Banoffee Sundae. Its basically bananas, toffee, vanilla ice cream, whip cream..and amazingness.

Our trip was definitely my favorite place I've been so far. I loved the small town feel and the great scenery...and of course the golf course! We will definitely be making a trip or two back there...hopefully to play some golf!