Edinburgh

Ok, so I have FINALLY submitted my TPA and have my life back again! Now it is time to get caught up on my blog posts! A lot has happened in the past few weeks, both in my travels and in school. I'm doing almost all of the teaching and planning now, it is a LOT of work but I am loving it! And I can't believe I am down to my final month, time has flown by so fast.

We went to Edinburgh, Scotland for St. Patty's weekend. We originally wanted to go to Dublin, but with it being Ireland and St. Patty's day such a big deal there, absolutely no hostels were available and the few that were had ridiculous prices for very low ratings. Not worth it. Luckily, Madelyne has some friends studying in Edinburgh that offered a free place to stay! It was a perfect deal!

Unfortunately, I was blonde and forgot to bring my camera :( Luckily though for smart phones I have a few pictures, plus some that I stole from the others.

If you did not know, J.K. Rowling is from Edinburgh. This is the exact cafe that she wrote Harry Potter on napkins! And don't worry, I was sure to take a napkin as a souvenir :)

This is the University of Edinburgh. The people that we stayed with go to this University. We got a mini-tour of the campus and got to see some of the inside. It was amazing, it almost felt like we were at Hogwarts :)

Unfortunately we did not have much luck with the weather, and it rained the entire time we were there. When I say the entire time we were there I mean 1 day because by the time we got there Friday night it was 11pm, and then we left at 9am on Sunday, so we really only had one day. And of COURSE it rained that entire time. But we still made the best of it! I fell in love with this city despite the rain. Definitely one that I will add to my list of places to visit again :)

I absolutely LOVE castles, and this castle did not disappoint. We did not tour inside of it because there were too many people and it was too expensive, but just from the outside it was so gorgeous. 

Kryssa did not make it on this trip with us (she went and visited another German town, Rothenburg, this weekend) but our neighbor across the hall from Michigan Shannon joined us!

Luckily, there was a HUGE rugby tournament and so we found shelter form the rain in a pub! I've never experienced sports fans like this! WSU football games have got NOTHING on European rugby games! I even tried my first Guinness (it was St. Patty's day after all) and I did not mind it! Would probably order it again...next St. Patty's day :)