Edinburgh

First off, I'm going to apologize for the fact that our posts have been so sporadic lately. As we get close to going home we've been thinking more about houses and less about blogging. Edinburgh really deserves more than the short post I'm going to give it. Edinburgh was everything I'd hoped London would be. It was great and if you come to Europe you should spend at least a couple of days there.

We visited the National Museum of Scotland which is cool if you like history and old stuff. They have lots of it. We also visited Holyrood House- it was awesome. It looks a lot like it did back in the 1600's, which was really cool to see. And there was a free audio tour guide thingy, which I liked a lot. It was especially cool to hang out in Mary, Queen of Scots bedroom.

We also hiked up Arthur's Seat, which is basically an oversized hill. Some great views at the top, and it was a reasonably nice hike. We walked the Royal Mile, which is mostly lined with shops called things like "The Real Scotland" that sell all kinds of stuff that says Scotland on it. We visited a cathedral and it was beautiful on the inside. It's really cool to think about how they built those things before math or engineering were at all understood.

I found out that there was a Marshall clan. Also a street called Marshall street, and a street called Gifford park.

In any case, now we're headed home. We spent half of yesterday here in Glasgow, but there's not much here. The food is good.