heilan coo

So I got home from spring break Tuesday night (a lot of Tuesdays ago) and had kind of forgotten that we had planned a weekend in Scotland for that next friday.. oii vey. it was a lot of traveling, in a short period of time. but completely worth it! Edinburgh was beautiful.
BUT i'm in the middle of typing a paper right now.. so you're just going to get pictures. check back in a few days, i might add words. ok maybe you'll get a little words, i just can't resist.

looking towards our hostel.. you can see the small teeny tiny sign in the window

looking across the street from our hostel.. Edinburgh castle!

then the same view from hanging out the window in my room..

in front of the castle

a little closer now

St Giles' Cathedral.. couldn't take pictures inside.

down the royal mile.

up the royal mile

cemetery

coolest bike rack i've ever seen

the group.. sitting on something in front of the Scottish parliament.

scottish parliament.

we saw a hill.. so we went up.

view from said hill.. the building closest.. with the big white roof is the parliament.

group on said hill

dinner

night

maddie bethany josh walt brian. (walt is a guy who lives in our building.. goes to school the same place we do.. but with a different program. we share our building with a group from north carolina.. he happened to be in scotland the same weekend, in the same hostel and we ran into him!)

each of these 'night' pictures are from somewhere different, i just realized.

breakfast.. in which i tried black pudding (look it up.. some nasty stuff, well the idea of it.. doesn't actually taste that bad) i'm serious. look it up. it's the little black thing sticking out from under the eggs/beans on the left. and THEN i fell in love with soda bread.. the bread with a (single) bean on it

side of the castle..

where we saw this guy.. zeke??

hah!

you can BET i went on this tour :) even got a whiskey glass.

on our way to princes street

i thought the clouds were pretty

FASTEST BLOG POST OF MY LIFE. sorry if it doesn't compare :)
but i realized i'd better get busy blogging if i want to catch up before i have to come home (it's soooo soon)