Scottish people are so friendly and really go out of the way to entertain our kids and help us find our way. We got kind of a late start and we kind of botched taking the bus (when we got on the 35 going the wrong way) but we set out to climb Arthur's Seat (dormant volcano towering over Edinburgh). It's in the middle of this huge Holyrood Park that is right in Edinburgh. It was spitting rain for awhile but it cleared up and the sun came out in the afternoon on our way down. Poor Chris had Hailey in the hiking pack which is quite the heavy load. She finally fell asleep in the pack-phew. Gorgeous views of Edinburgh and the Royal Mile from the top!
We grabbed some lunch at the Holyrood Palace Cafe (Holyrood is where the queen stays when she is in Scotland).
Their super modern new Parliament building:
The Birth of Harry Potter was in this cafe:
Edinburgh Castle. Very cool how it towers above and is built into the rock. Ethan was determined to navigate the map:
We had to sample some whiskey while in Scotland! We went to this Amber Whiskey bar and each picked one from the huge (probably like 15pgs of options) booklet of offerings. Mine was the one on the left and was supposed to have hints of lemon meringue pie, vanilla, honey and some other things. Chris admitted he liked mine better, it was smoother (after that initial burn from the first sip).
Next we dined at Cannonball, another restaurant that Jen recommended. We were a little nervous going in there with kids when we saw it was a bit fancy. But it turned out to be fine. We had 5:30pm reservations and were the only people in there for an hour! The servers were really nice to the kids and one guy came over and made napkin hats for the kids. Excellent food (my pork and Chris' fish)! We had the Haggis cannonballs (deep fried balls) as an app which were actually really good. (Ha, if you're going to try Haggis, that is the way to go!) And the Heather Beer was really good too! Chris is going to try and brew some when we get home.
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