Edinburgh Castle...The best yet!

Today I paid Edinburgh another visit with Adrienne, her mom, and Meredith. This time we did the castle and I’m really glad we decided to. It was my favorite of all the castles I have seen. I thought it was really cool how it was built right in to the natural rock. It is up on a hill so we didn’t have to climb any stairs really; it was just slight inclines. It dates back to some 3000 years ago which is crazy and way back when there was actually a volcano where it stands. We got to see the crown jewels of Scotland which weren’t quite as impressive as England’s but they were still jewels so I can’t complain! And we saw this exhibit on the Prisoners of War which had these 3 wooden doors that came off of ship for the 1800s that had all these carvings in them. You could make out names and dates and there were three carvings of ships that were pretty cool.














After that we checked out this tartan textile mill exhibition which was quite dumb and suck in comparison to the mill I visited in the summer in Ireland. BUT then I purchased some of the world’s greatest fudge as Jim Garrahy’s fudge kitchen claims to be. I got peanut butter which is going to have to fill my peanut butter void right now because last week my stock of Jif I brought with me ran out and I am quite distraught over it.

Next we saw the Parliament building which has caused quite a controversy. It is very modern looking so it looks slightly odd and out of place. People were mad about it also because it ended up being way over budget and took month longer than they had said. I wasn’t too thrilled with it myself.

After that we visited the Palace of Hollyrood where Queen Mary resided. We did an audio tour which I’m not usually a fan of even though they are informative, I just find them annoying and would rather read or be told by an actual person. Anyways, some of the stories were quite intriguing so I am glad I did it. One story was that, Mary’s second husband Donley was found strangled in his garden; they think it was her mistress who killed him and maybe she even had something to do with it! How scandalous! Then there is Queen Elizabeth, her cousin, who put her in jail for 19 years! Pretty Crazy!