Edinburgh

i think the school employed the worst bus driver alive. i was soooo nauseous the entire time. it was a 6 1/2 hour drive from school to edinburgh. he also managed to get us lost in the city and back all the way down a street. this is a giant coach bus p.s. we got to the hotel and i stayed with kellsey and tpaq. we put our stuff down and walked around. it is just such a beautiful place, the people are much nicer than in london and seem more to be on vacation time than rushing... the next day we ate a fancy breakfast which we were late for. if breakfast starts at 8 then that means you are sitting in your chair ready to order at 8; not how we do it here like, 8 means 815. after eating we walked all day. we saw the edinburgh castle, arthurs seat (a volcano), and all sorts of neat shops and such. it was really a nice time. i got sam a gray 1920 top hat from the Cassilis family house/manor and haggeled with the owner :) we all rode a bus, which we turned into a 'tour' bus because we were too cheap for the actual tour. it was fantastic :) edinburgh is such a beautiful places.

on the way back we stopped twice. the first place was at hadrian's wall. we got lost on the way, in the country. again i had my head in a plastic bag. also hadrian's wall isnt there, but remnats are... so it was like 2 feet of walls so a basic lay out of what used to be there was the onlything visible. cool but nothing like i had in my mind. hadrians wall was one of the greatest defenses in england. i was expecting to walk on it like the great wall of china, not the case.

we then went to durham where we got lost again, we were supposed to have 2 hours solid to visit a castle. we had a little over one hour and the dean told us just to go eat lunch lol so thats what we did. it was three hours home from there. we got back in time for dinner, hallelujah.

here's a tip: you seat yourself almost everywhere. so dont stand in the doorway waiting for someone to come talk to you.