Castles, Palaces and Enough Plaid to shake a stick at

Today we finally had a port call in Edinburgh, capitol city of Scotland. The sun also FINALLY was out. Mom and I were up at the crack of ass to have breakfast and catch the tenders to our waiting bus to the city. Edinburgh is a fascinating city...very old and gorgeously constructed. We concentrated our short time on the Castle, the Royal Mile and Holyrood Palace. The castle sits HIGH above the city and the views from its vista were breathtaking. Did you know the have a special cemetary for the royal dogs at this castle? We also saw the crown jewels, which were overrated. We then headed down the royal mile, which is frankly a really long hill of gift shops (all selling plaid/tartans) and cafes. The historic stuff was there, but seemed like it was being overtaken by souvenir stands. Finally we made it to Holyrood Palace which was the highlight of the trip. This is where the queen stays when she comes in Edinburgh. It was so neat! There is an old ruin of an abbey attached that was just haunting and gorgeous. We also stolled around the grounds and took many photos of Arthurs seat above us.
But now I'm tired. Tomorrow is our last day at sea (yeah!) and my last chance to play BINGO!
I likely won't be blogging again until the weekend when we are in London.
Couple of things I forgot to mention
Gas here is wicked expensive...like $4.00 a gallon
We got tickets to see "Billy Elliot:The Musical" on Saturday night. Its supposed to be great.

Until then
Knitty D