on the bonnie banks

After Ireland, we went to Scotland. It was neat to be at Loch Lomond and teach the other girls the lyrics to the song about the lake. :) We had fun singing it in a round.

O you’ll take the high road and I’ll take the low road

And I’ll be in Scotland afore ye

For me and my true love will never meet again

On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.

We spent the next couple of days in Edinburgh where we saw the place where J.K. Rowling started writing Harry Potter and we also got to explore the underground city. There used to be a wall in Edinburgh to keep the English out and all the people had to live behind the wall. There was not enough room for everyone to live so they started building up toward the sky. It is said that these were called the first skyscrapers. Once the building reached four stories high, they started to move in the wind because they were made of wood so the people had to start building underground. We took a "ghost tour" of this part which was pretty fun.

One day, we left Edinburgh to take a tour of the Highlands of Scotland. The landscape was like nothing I've seen before in my life. It was absolutely breathtaking. The trip was topped off with a visit to Loch Ness to see the Loch Ness monster. No luck...