Pictures from Edinburgh

Edinburgh is so beautiful and full of character. We stayed in the New Town, which is only like 250 years old. Not old at all!
Holyrood House (Queen's part time residence), Notice the similarities to our house.

Parliment Building

Picture taken from the Royal Mile

The Royal Mile during the day

A view from within the castle

Part of Edinburgh Castle

I think this was just a really nice, old hotel

The Royal Mile at night

This picture is taken in front of Edinburgh Castle at night.

UK television

Due to my inability to go to pubs and drink, we have spent most of our evenings watching UK television. It has actually been quite good. We saw 2 Jamie Oliver specials which were both quite good.
We say a commercial for... well I have no idea, otherwise I would post it, but the Calgary Tower was in background with some strange music, strange clouds and an even stranger flying object (if my memory serves me).
We have also seen many show on home renovations which are really much more remarkable than 'Trading Spaces', these Brits really have a talent for renovating!
They swear a lot more and will show nudity on general prime time TV! It's kind of mad, really!

More pictures from the same busy day!

We did a lot of walking this day, I pretty much fell apart at the end of the day. I had sore hips and sore feet and then a day after came down with a cold, in other words I totally wore myself out. These pictures don't even cover everything we did in London in one day.

London photos for Jamie

The commemorative 5th anniversary coin

I'm not sure if any of you have seen the twin towers rise up in pure silver recovered from ground zero. But wow, is it cool!
The best part of it is that they are advertising this quasi infomercial on CBC. You send the money order to Winnipeg?? For all of you that can do math, 5 year's ago was not 2001! Anything wrong with this picture?
Apparently, it is a scam, a hoax, who would have thought.
CBC... what are you doing? Shouldn't these be sold at Wal-mart?

The Podcast

I have discovered the best thing ever. Downloading podcasts on to my iPod. I guess I'm not really the one that discovered this, but it was a revelation for me.
Last night we got an oil change, when we pulled up they told us it would be a 45 min wait. Which is a fairly long time, but then I remember the podcasts I downloaded the night before. So we entertained ourselves basically watching TV in the car. The time passed by so quickly.
There was also an A&W right beside us, so we had dinner too. It was like we were at the drive in! Very exciting.
Now I can watch podcasts on the way to England, yah!