Monday, March 2, 2009

Scotland trip

this weekend we went to Scotland. it was awesome. we took the train to Edinborough. when we got there we went on a quick half-ass walking tour in which our tour guide(who wore a kilt) told us things to do. it was really hard to remeber all of what he said so brie and I just wandered for a little bit and had dinner, i had haggis. we went back to the hostel to drop some stuff off when we did I saw something for a comedy club and i decided we should go. on our way we ran into Nick and Whiney and got them to come with us. it was a really funny show even though we had to stand for two hours cuz there were no more seats. it was a good show so it wasnt bad to stand. at the comedy club the toilets are down a bunch of stairs which is really funny when everyone there is intoxicated. people were grabbing the handrail like there was no tomorrow. the people in ireland and scotland are also on a completely different level of cursing to let me tell you.
the next day we began to drive up to north scotland(the highlands) on our way we stopped and saw william wallace's memorial. then we stopped at a place that had a highland cow....random i know, i had a haggis roll there. then we stopped for lunch at the "green wellie store." it was good and in the store they sold some pretty extravagant tea pots.(shaped like telephones and houses and stuff). we then went to Loch ness where i did not see nessie but i beleive she is there. we went to Inverness after that which is where we stayed. not much to do there but our tour guide told us of cheap eats and a sweet place for music. so we went to witherspoons to eat which was way cheap. it was liek 5 pounds for a burger and a pint. sinc hte drinks were so cheap there brie and i tried a bunch cuz we had time to kill before we went to the pub for music. i think i got like 3 drinks for a lil over the price of one back in london. afterwards we went to Hootanany's. it is a three story pub where the first floor is traditional scottish music and the second floor is more rock stuff. so we saw some music on the first floor, then went up to the second floor. i got two more drinks there. and we watched a band from london play. it was really cool . brie and i both can hold our alchohol well and so cna nick and whitney...so we were all good for the walk back home. when we got there we ran into some girls who definatly could not. they couldnt even stand. i began telling the stories that they would beleive.
One girl feel into the bushes or something on their way back to the hostel and got a white mark on their jeans...i proceeded to tell her that it was blood, she licked it to see if it tasted like blood(of course it didnt) but i told her it was because it hadnt seeped all the way through her pants. the next morning was awesome talking ot them cuz they couldnt remeber.
on sunday we began our drive back. first we stopped at a battle field. it was pretty cool. then we stopped at a place for lunch where we met a bunch of the kids who were on our trip. they are from royal holloway. they were all cool and invited us to eat with them. after lunch we continued to drive through the highlands back to endinburgh. where we took teh train back home. i played random games with the kids from royal holloway. it was fun and i liked them all. we got back to kings cross station and we parted ways but they will be going on some of the other trips we are going on and they also come into the city pretty often (their school isnt in the middle of london)..it was a really fun trip.

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