October 13th, 2004

Hi guys!! Today is October 13th and we are in Glasgow, Scotland right now for the night. We've been having loads of adventures - so we will tell you a few of them! For about the past week we've been staying with Jean at her place in Edinburgh. It was very lovely and we would all like to move there sometime. Edinburgh is known as the City of the Dead and it's a pretty scary place (only because of ghosts, not because of guns or bad men). We went on a ghost tour on our first night - and we got in for free!! Woot Woot! We saw the burial sites of some pretty bad apples...and they also stuck us in a tomb with a Poltergeist!! We didn't see the Poltergeist, BUT Ern had bruises the next day. Sheesh.

The next day we went on a tour to the highlands! That was awesome, it was soooo beautiful! We visited some lovely places like Glencoe and Loch Ness and we got as far as Inverness. We were hoping to see Nessie...we heard there was a £250,000 award for a nice clear picture, I wish I won that award. After the tour we met up with our lovers...haha - just kidding! We met up with Nadine's totally cool brothers Adam and Donald and their awesome friend Mike! We all went out to a pub and then to some bars. One was very fun, one was very sketchy. It was neat to see what the nightlife was like there. The next day was Thanksgiving, so we had Thanksgiving dinner with the boys at their cool hostel! Oh yum. Oh yum yum.

We also visited some really great places like:

1. Edinburgh castle - where we saw the crown jewels!
2. Edinburgh Dungeon
3. A couple art galleries - we saw Monet and Van Gogh and Rembrandt
4. Arthur’s Seat - a big hill that we hiked!

We also had a few other interesting experiences. We were walking up a small street and saw two homeless men, one of which asked us for money. When we didn't give him any he proceeded to yell and swear at us. He told us to go home, which really hurt our feelings. "You're poor?? I'm really f'ing poor. So just f off." Wow, he was really mean. So then, we ran over, and smashed all his alcohol bottles...I think he learned his lesson. Haha - Just kidding! The last part wasn't true. He really did yell at us, and that is a true quote. But we just ran away. Boy, what an adventure.

We also have been eating a lot of free fudge from our friend down in the fudge kitchen (Jim's fudge kitchen). Jim says it's the best fudge in the world. It was alright. We also tried Haggis, Neeps and Tatties when we went out to dinner with Jean. It was delicious despite what anyone else says. We also ate caramel shortbread, and that was the best moment of all of our lives.

Accents are a little bit tough to understand here. For example - we passed a man who yelled to us - Give me a smell! We just smiled and walked a way - what the heck does that mean? We realized after that he said - Give me a smile. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. That was funny.

Tomorrow we are flying to Dublin. We have no friends there yet. We wish Nadine's brothers and Mike were around. Then I bet homeless men wouldn't harass us. Toodoloo! A nasty woman just yelled at us and Bri had to go away to her own computer, so I hope this post works!