Well once again I picked the color of where we are!!!! We are officially in SCOTLAND! and i can't even begin to describe how awesome is...but I'm getting ahead of myself because I must talk a little about the end of Dublin first!
We decided to sleep in and check out at 1030 as scheduled. We then sat around the common area where we had met some people who had been living in the hostel for over 6 months....crazy right? I ended up talking to this one girl who had lived in Rome, Amsterdam, and a couple of other places before settling in Dublin for the last 8 months. It was crazy. We both lived in the Vatican area and such. We ended up bonding over the fact that there was this red-haired girl who was ancient looking and would just say really inappropriate things in the common area. In addition, there was this guy who was probably 18, with boots up to his knees with no laces, black shirts, and weird longish hair, and these two would go at each other. Of course Wednesday night comes along (a big drinking night, not to mention the Champions Cup was that day, Manchester United LOST to Barcelona, ridiculous) anyways, these two were arguing and these two Irish kids started to pick on the boots kid. Boots kid said something under his breath and the Irish kids and boots kid started to get into it. Well needless to say the only threat boots kid has was "well i've been here forever". And these Irish kids could have snapped this kid in half. Meanwhile, poor Santino is trying to watch the Laker game and is slowly but surely turning up the volume. All in all, Tino told them to shut the hell up so that he culd watch the game in peace. The Irish kids end up getting 86ed from the hostel, only because they were very close to breaking the kid in half. Had I been there I would have said that he should have gotten the shit beat out of him earlier...and the red-head needed to grow up and find a job....but of course I was asleep at 430 in the morning.
Anyways, we boarded our RyanAir flight in Dublin at 1520, and of course we got hassled about our luggage. This time our suitcases lost weight though. Tino's suitcase was only 19.5 kgs and mine was only 3.2 kgs over. So we only got slapped with a 7kg over bag charge. BUT when i tried to board the plane some lady stopped me bc my backpack was huge. Of course. So i had to do some repacking so that it would fit in the stupid carrying case. But the flight was only 45 minutes, and it was a rather scary ride to say the least. When we landed, I'm sure we bounced before we landed the second time.
BUT SCOTLAND IS AMAZING! When we got here we were just in time to unpack, take a shower, take a nap and then hit up the FREE pub-crawl that came with the hostel. What a way to meet your new roommates. That's the best part of this hostel. The rooms are named things, like for example our room is called "Fridge". My bed is named "Miller" and tino's bed is "Corona". We've also got beds called Guiness, VB, and Stella. Across the hall is Gotham City and Little Miss. So this hostel is fun to say the least. On the pub-crawl we met a bunch of Kiwis (new zealanders for those of you who don't know the nickname) and of course a few Asians. Now, you know the Reynolds' sterotype. But come on, this kid had on a shirt that LIT UP! it was like a stero wave, and would go up and down with the beat. It was amazing. We have video footage, and Tino took a picture with him! He looked like that Wang guy from American Idol. And YES, he did do Karoke with his girlfriend. And yes it was to "I will survive". OHHH yeah, and of course my computer crashed right before we got to Scotland. So i've lost all my paperwork for school, and I can't get my SD card to upload pics from the past few days, so you'll have to make do with the pics from above for now until I can get the SD card to work again. We do have a lot of videos and pics on this SD card. It could be that problem.
Anyways, Edinburgh is like the Karoke capital of the UK, because it was everywhere. After going to Oz bar, Opium, the Royal Mile bar and such Tino and I finally joined in at the end of the night. They had free shots for those who sang, so we coudln't resist. Anyways, we woke up fairly early the next morning to get an authentic Scottish breakfast. Bacon, eggs, sausage, potato thing, black pudding (eww) and Haggis (even worse eww). If you knew what Haggis is, you'd know it was pretty gross. Lamb leftovers boiled with oats and ewwness. Yeah no thanks. The rest of the breakfast was good. We then went on a three-hour walking tour of the city with this girl who looked exactly like Anna Vallis. It was crazy. After seeing soooo much including THE cafe that JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter, the poltergeist of Mad McKensie, and the "original" Hogwarts (to name a few) we were tired. BUT, we pressed on. We bought our train ticket to London for Monday (which was hella expensive, sorry mom it was the cheapest of the day though), we then went into a ride called the Edinburgh Dungeon. This was the scariest thing Tino and I have experienced in our lives. It was a walking tour of the murders, killings, deaths, and scaryness that is Edinburgh. How people died, where they died, the ghosts, hauntings, etc. yeah good choice huh? Especially since we purchased the Ghost Tour ticket for 930pm that night. Anyways, we couldn't even walk down the admission hallways without holding onto each other for dear life. We were like 5 years old walking around. Well, our cowardness paid off becuase by the time we got the nerve to walk down the hall the lady was like, Oh you're late, just go on in don't worry about paying! Good thing bc the tour was freakishly scary and we would have been pissed at the end of it. The actors in each room were great, and at the end there was a drop that was pretty cool. After this we went back to the hostel to rest, had some fish and chips for dinner and took a nap before the Ghost tour.
It was awesome. Nothing too scary. We walked around the "end of the world" where a wall used to be that blocked the city from inner and outer, and if you weren't rich enough to pay to get back in, well that was the end of the world for you. Anyways, at the end they gave you a free pint of whatever you wanted to calm your nerves from seeing graves, masoleums, and just general weirdness. I have a few pictures that are weird. The weather is "hot" for locals. But it's like maybe 78 degrees in the sun. The beautiful weather is following us. Anyways, it was sundown on Calton Hill (which witch burnings and hangings took place) and I took a picture of Old Town. But instead of being beautiful it looks like it's pouring down rain. And instead of being the town now it looks like it was in the 17th century which is the story our guide was telling us at the time. weird stuff!
Scotland is by far my favorite place to have visited so far. The people are wonderful, the hostel is awesome, and walking around amidst castles, and the crazy weird history is great. Oh, did I mention that Edinburgh is the top 5 most haunted cities in the world! Thanks dad for watching ghost hunters for us! More to come later today! We're going on another tour today!
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