Edinburgh

Our second day in Scotland we explored Edinburgh. The first thing we all went to was Edinburgh Castle, which you can see here.

My sister Nola is crazy about castles, and as fans of most things medieval, Sandy, Chris and I are as well. In the next photo, you can see my sister Nola, Sandy, my brother Jack and his wife Shirley laughing uproariously at a cannon, for some reason ;<) Not really, but I did not hear the joke since I was too busy taking photos.

Sandy wanted to make immediately for the oldest part, an eleventh century chapel for Queen/Saint Margaret. You can see her in stained glass here from that chapel.

After that, we went to see an educational reenactment in the the castle's great hall by a man dressed up as an 18th century British sailor, who talked about how people got recruited into the Navy, using some young men in the audience, including Chris, as examples. You can see a photo of him checking out Chris' hands. Since Chris did not have too many calluses, he decided Chris might make a better blood-thirsty ship's Marine than a sailor.

After the castle, we wandered about getting people's tartan shopping needs taken care of, having lunch and seeing many churches and museums.