This weekend Lexi and I went to Edinburgh and stayed with the lovely Lydia Bremer from Friday-Tuesday. We went out to a cute pizza restaurant. Mary Neely was also there. Here's Lydia smelling the wine the proper way, one nostril at a time?
After dinner, we met up with Lydia's friends in an Irish pub. Yeah, an Irish pub...in Scotland. Lexi got her first Guiness and this lovely Irish friend of Lydia's taught her how to wait for it to settle properly and also how to get a beer foam mustache and look ridiculous.
At breakfast the next morning. Lydia got a yummy scone and I got the piece of lemon cake on the tray there which was totally delicious! Perfect fuel for the castle.
If you can't read the inscription, I'll just tell you that's Hume. Yeah, I know. Super exciting!
The Royal Mile, home of David Hume and other less exciting statues like Adam Smith (whatever)
Lydia and me! View from the castle:
Low Defences too low for Lydia:
Who are those people in those awkward cubbies on either side of this gate? Maybe Lydia and Lexi but it's unclear...
Who are those totally disrespectful tourists in the war museum? Definitely not Lexi and Lydia again...
Saint Margaret's Cathedral is the oldest surviving portion of Edinburgh Castle. This picture sort of makes it look big but actually it's really tiny.
We had to wait for this really tacky wedding to be over to go in. Check out the bridesmaid dresses?
Who's that person in that thing behind the lion? Definitely Lydia.
On the way to the Scottish crown jewels, there were lots of displays about Scottish royalty. This one king was winking, lol.
Model of baby Mary Queen of Scots:
Lexi and Lydia in a Scottish prison cell in Edinburgh castle. Sleepy criminals.
It cost 11 pounds to go in but the Castle actually contains several museums and we definitely got our money's worth. We spent over three hours seeing everything! After that, we pretty much exhausted our touristy-ness for the day. More Edinburgh pictures to come.
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