Reality

I hate homework. It's just a draft of a paper that's due. But they don't believe in structure here which means I'm totally guessing as to how this paper is supposed to look AND what's really annoying is that I know my topic well enough to write a dissertation on it but it won't matter because without GUIDANCE it's going to look like a blob. A giant pool of a blob.

In other news, three days til Taryn! And I still really don't want to leave London ever, but I have to book my ticket from SD to DC. So weird...

Pictures from Scotland:


Edinburgh, Day 1. View of New Town from Old Town



Holyroodhouse Palace!

Scottish Parliament. Totally different from British Parliament.
Thing. With crests.
Bagpipes guy!

Our tour guide, Owen. He's from Canada. The steps behind him are preserved from back in the day when people use trick steps as a form of home security.

View of Edinburgh from the Edinburgh Castle (yes another castle in the same city). It was gorgeous that day!

The Edinburgh grave yard where JK Rowling frequented for inspiration. Here is Tom Riddle's grave, he was a real person!

The restaurant JK Rowling spent everyday in, writing her first two novels. We ate dinner there that night.

Beautiful.

The crew in front of the Edinburgh Castle.

Building.

The table in The Elephant House that JK sat at everyday while she wrote.

Hostel. Reminiscent to the hotel I first stayed in when I went to New York with the littles. This speaks for itself.


These pictures are from Day 2 in Scotland where we went around the country on a 12-hour bus tour:

Stop #1: Pitlochry. Cute little town that pretty much looks like this up and down the one main street. Meg decided she could totally spend the rest of her life here.

We took lots of pictures outside our windows. This one's blurry but you can imagine that it was amazing. This is when we started entering the Highlands...I think.

Stop #2: "Loch" means "Lake" and there are a million of them in Scotland. This was the first one we stopped at!

Stop #3: All the next pictures are at Loch Ness!! We did NOT find the monster :(


They really just made the Loch Ness Monster into some cute little pet, like a big worm.

Stop #4: Three Sisters Mountain
This is one of the sisters, the other two are on either side of it. They were HUGE and there was no way to get all three of them into one camera frame. I even crossed the other side of the freeway to try!

I'm an awful human and told Fei I would tell her how to pose to make it look like she was climbing on top of the mountain. It took her WAY too long to realize I was messing with her haha.
We felt like taking "epic" poses.

Stop #5: Whiskey Capitol, Scotland
Free drinks anyone?

Stop #6: Hamis the famous "coo"!!
We were cold and tired to say the least. Which was great since this was our last stop before returning back to Edinburgh. Fei went to dinner with a friend from school who was studying abroad in Scotland while the rest of us had dinner at some place that was not DEACON BRODY'S like I begged. No one listens to me. (Deacon Brody was the real inspiration of Dr. Jekyll and Hyde) Whatever.

Then we got back to London. And showered. Be thankful you didn't run into us between those two things.