Day 25 2/4/12

Saturday oh Saturday the one day of the trip we decided to sleep in that morning. The night before was the pub crawl and we had come in quite late/early in the morning and wanted to sleep in. When we had come into the room we did know the we had roommates and that night I had been woken up not only by the freezing cold but the constant on and off snoring. Man oh man I wish only the five of us had that room but no it would be too good to be true. At least it was getting a little bit warmer in the room so that did help out a bit. Today we decided we would check out the castle and some museums. Due to our waking up late we did have a late start and maybe got out at around 10 or 11ish am and we decided to find a place to get something to eat. We ended up going to Subways somewhat near the royal mile. It took a while to find this subways since the first one did not look to be all that great. After we ate we went on a bit of a walk to go see the castle. My gosh the hills just got steeper and steeper but soon enough we made it to the front of the entrance of the castle. It was a beautiful view. It was a shame that the weather was not sunny and a bit rainy but other than that it was quite beautiful. At 1pm we got to watch the canon be fired by a woman nick named Shannon the cannon (for some reason I thought it would be a man but I was wrong. WOMEN POWER lol). The firing of the canon at 1pm is to signal the boats to let them know it is 1pm. I thought that was pretty cool. We walked around the castle for a while and I enjoyed it. There was a few hands on but it was not furnished as much as I thought it would be but I do not care. I'm glad I got to see a castle in Scotland and learn more about the history of it. After the castle we went to go get some lunch and then we headed to the Natural History Museum to go visit Dolley. Maybe you heard of her, she is the first cloned sheep. Yup, born, raised and dead in Edinburgh, Scotland. That museum was really nice. Defiantly a good place to take your children. After that museum we decided to check out the writers museum. It was really interesting and there were stones outside that had quotes and some of them really stood out to me. I thought that was pretty neat and the whole museum was interesting full of random facts about the writers from Scotland. Once we had finished we went to Pizza Express to eat dinner. We were contemplating whether or not to go to the ghost tour afterwards due to the weather but we had decided to do it since the weather had cleared up a bit. The ghost tour was pretty fun. I was hardly scared but there was a group of girls from Spain who I thought were about the shit their pants. I'm thinking really? All of the props are fake and its not that bad but oh well. I bet they do not like to watch scary movies and if they do they should stick to watching at home not in the theaters. Just a random vent. The tour guide was pretty fun to listen to and I loved how he called us all mortals. The tour went by pretty quickly and after it finished we headed back to the hostile. At the hostile we basically chilled, Skyped friends and decided what we do on our last morning in Scotland.