Tew Rrrrrrrrrright: An Explanation

Here's what's going on in these pics...

1. The Door with the Scottish Thistle - on this trip Gaeby, Kelsey, and I decided that 'getting thistled' was the Scottish version of 'getting drunk'. Aside from that, it was just a cool door...very patriotic.

2. Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow - these heads hung high from the ceiling, each expressing anger, sorrow, delight, confusion, surprise....etc. They give the neat effect of floating heads, no? I think they were actually called the Floating Heads.

3. Stunning views of a loch during our day-trip into the highlands. At this point the sun was just coming out and shedding light upon what became a beautiful day. I definately had a breath of fresh air (get it? my blog title? ...)

4. Highland Hills.

5. Me and the Highland Hills.

6. The remains of a Castle...wow these explanations are suuuuuper helpful...

7 - 9. Jumping for Joy at Loch Ness.

10. The Forecasting Stone at Loch Ness. Needless to say, it was sunny.

11. This is either The Hub or a cool steeple that you can pay to go up and look across the city. Either way it's in Edinburgh and is a frighteningly good example of gothic architecture (because gothic things are frightening, like Frankenstein, you know?)

12. BORTHWICKS REPRESENT!!!!! Found this gem of an alley-way on my way up to the Castle along the Royal Mile. The Borthwicks were very important people back in the day, right hand to Scottish royalty. Respectable people. My dad told me I've got blue blood.

13. It's good luck to rub David Hume's toe. I rubbed both just to be sure.

14. Our first DEEP FRIED MARS BAR. Yeah, they do that in Scotland, and yeah, it was delicious....and then my stomach hurt.

15. Skeleton on a grave stone in an old church yard.

16. I couldn't resist....tree bum! And the grave stones along Flodden Wall look like picture frames.

17. View around Grass Market.

18. Us standing with Paul, our super-awesome tour guide, in front of the smallest pub in Edinburgh. It was just the three of us with Paul, which gave him the liberty to tell all his hilarious jokes, as we were keen listeners. One of my favs was when he was showing us the Scottish Parliament buildings, which didn't get established until 1999 because before then Scotland was ruled by the English government. So that night they partied like it was 1999!! HAAAAAAAA. Needless to say, we all got along very well.

19. View of the city from atop the craigs (rough hills in Edinburgh).

20. Arthur's Seat. No, its not King Arthur. It's a different one, and yes, he sat down once he got to the top, but you would too after a climb like that!

Overall, Scotland is a sweet country to visit. Glasgow is more artsy with 600,000 pop and Edinburgh is more old beauty and historical, with 400,000 pop. Loved both cities for different reasons, and I would absolutely return to either.

OH and apparently, according to my friend Mike who's living there on an exchange right now, he said that if you don't understand what someone has said, you say 'too right' and say back what they've just said. Except you can't hear the accent over the internet, but you know how that R would sound...so scottish!