Edinburgh

3 August 2012

This morning, the girls and I went to a kilt store and walked through an exhibit there. We got to see the kilt that Mel Gibson wore in Braveheart and the kilt that Liam Neeson wore in Rob Roy, so that was pretty great. We also watched this super awesome video about…well, I’m not really sure what it was about. It was pretty strange. We were laughing the entire time. I recorded part of it on my camera, but my blog doesn’t like it enough to let me post it.

Later, the group drove to Edinburgh. The rest of the night, we just walked down the street where the Fringe was going on. So we got to see a lot of street performers, and that was a lot of fun! I also tried to look for Pollock souvenirs, but I couldn’t find anything. Sad day.

That was basically the entire day. It was fun; there’s just not a lot to say about it.

This guy was playing on a saw!

I loved this group!

Here's an idea of what it looked like

4 August 2012

Today, we got to sleep in! I’m pretty sure that’s the only time I’ve done that on this trip. So of course, it was really loud outside our hostel, making it extremely difficult for me to actually sleep. But that’s okay.

We did basically the same thing that we did yesterday. We walked along the street and enjoyed the Fringe. And it was awesome because we could walk down one way and then turn right back around to find completely new entertainment since the people are constantly changing! We also went to a comedy show, and that was great! Plus, it was free, so that’s always nice.

Later that night, we got to go to the Military Tattoo. It was AMAZING! I absolutely loved it! It was so fun to see all of the different bands come out and represent their countries. I especially liked Australia’s performance. They had the entire audience join them in a dance party. It was so awesome!

There were a lot of other cool things, but I’ll just show you the pictures since that will explain it better than I can:

In front of Edinburgh Castle

This was the Australian dance party :)

They used a projector to put things on the castle, and this was
one they used for the US Navy (they played a bunch of superhero
theme songs to show that soldiers are superheroes too).

And, of course, they topped it all off with some
fireworks above the castle at the end!

We got back to our hostel pretty late, but it was definitely worth losing sleep over. Such a good night! :)