The New Adventures of Mr & Mrs Buchanan: Scotland

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Fun at the Scottish Festival

Today I went to the Scottish Festival at Thanksgiving Point. It was a ton of fun and I may have gotten a little bit sunburnt on my neck and arms, but it was so worth it.
I went with my friend Tricia and we met up with my cousins. I also ran into my friend Shelby, who is actually the person who told me about the Scottish Festival. We got to wander through the booths and see lots of men in kilts. Plus we got to hear a lot of beautiful bagpipes being played all throughout the day.

Yes Sam is biting me, but it's only because she is missing her four front teeth, so she looks like a little vampire.

We spent most of the day together. Amazingly enough I made it out of there with only a giant bottle of root beer and a bunch of Shortbread cookies.

I hope you enjoy this video. It's a little long but you need to at least watch the last minute of it because that's the funny part. It's me doing the Caber Toss, a Highland sport. Go ahead and laugh, I did.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

A few days in Edinburgh, Scotland

So as many of you know I just got back from a two week study abroad in England and Scotland. Well now I'm going to share lots and lots of pictures from my awesome trip. This is mostly going to be pictures, just know that I am now in love with Great Britain and I plan on going back very soon. So if anyone wants to go to England next summer let me know because I am DEFINITELY in!!! There's a ton of pictures so I think I might be doing this in parts. These pictures are not in any order. These pictures will be from my trip to Edinburgh, Scotland. This was actually near the end of my two weeks, but you'll get to see these first.

This is the Sir Walter Scott Memorial. You can walk up the stairs to the top, but we didn't have time, and honestly I don't do well with heights.

That's Edinburgh castle behind me.

Delicious Fish n Chips. I was too afraid to try any of the other British specialties, but Fish n Chips was sooooooooo yummy!


This is my friend Lloyd. He liked teasing me about being a Ginger. As a side note they call red heads "Gangers" in Scotland.

This was on the Double Dead tour we went on. Hear was a skeleton of one of the prisoners that has been in the catacombs for several centuries.

In the Catacombs

This was our tour guide Ian on the Double Dead tours. He was awesome. He had this creepy laugh and he was so good at being scary.

For all you Harry Potter fans, this is the school that inspired Hogwarts. It has four houses and each house has the same colors as the different houses in Hogwarts.

This is a statue of Greyfriar's dog Bobby. It's said that if you touch the statue you'll see it again within a year. I'm hoping that is true.

These are pictures of JK Rowling writing the Harry Potter books in The Elephant House, which is this yummy cafe that we ate breakfast at one morning.

This was a sign on the door of the bathroom at The Elephant House

This is me and my friend Amber in the bathroom at The Elephant House. People from all over the world have written notes to JK Rowling and Harry Potter.