Haggis, Harry Potter, and Other Scottish Things

Photo Blog #2! Adventures in Edinburgh

We had to actually find out what Neeps and Tatties where from a children's book in a tourist shop (they're turnips and potatoes). Then on Saturday night I tried Haggis and it was amazing. Just don't think about how it's made.
I heard more bagpipe playing this past weekend than in my whole life.
Some Edinburgh shots
That is the statue of Hume. Whom, do you ask? Yeah I don't know either.
Tickling him haha...ok shut up.
Yeah, I know the feet jokes were getting old.
This train is from the second Harry Potter movie, it's the actual set and it's in the middle of the Highlands of Scotland. We drove by and I had to get a shot. It's from when Harry and Ron are chasing the train in Ron's flying car. Cool right?
I wanted a shot with sheep in the background. There are 5 million people in Scotland and 38 million sheep...we saw a lot.
Gorgeous right? This was a battlefield known as Glencoe.
Swordfight at Urquehart Castle
The clear winner...
Picturesque...The Loch Ness is in the Background
Some more fun in the castle ruins
Sarah of the North...or the East Coast
On the Loch!
Feeling Nautical
After the cruise on the Loch. It had begun to rain. What else is new?
Our tour lasted 13 HOURS! We covered so much ground and I really wasn't bored because there was so much to see plus our tour guide was a historian and had a hilarious Scottish sense of humor.
With our tour guide, Alan. He called me Little Miss Perfect since I refused to try Blood Pudding.
Edinburgh Castle at night. We saw this every time we walked to our hostel because it was right next to it.
Edinburgh....such a beautiful city.
Where JK Rowling apparently sat for hours writing the Harry Potter series, because she was too poor to afford heat in her own home. Talk about your rags to riches story.
Recognize any names? Rowling got McGonagall from this graveyard
Creepy right? She also got Voldemort's "muggle name" from the graveyard as well. It was a huge and beautiful old graveyard, and Nika, Steph, and I split up to see if we could find the name, because someone in our hostel mentioned it was there. I found it, pretty far in. :)
Some pictures from the hostel. They painted that place like crazy!
The view from my window. Just kidding it's more hostel art.
The last shots of Edinburgh. No blue sky on Friday or Saturday, but FINALLY on Sunday.
Sleeping on the ride home.