I have to mention that since the water-camera dispute, my camera has been a little cranky. To show me just how upset it actually is, when I went to take my first picture of Stirling Castle it turned on and displayed "No battery power remaining" and turned off. So, all of these pictures have to be attributed to my new friend Julia (from Germany) who kindly e-mailed me all of her pictures.
I think we took about 17 different pictures with various cameras. I thought I would throw 2 in there to do us some justice. Yes we probably shouldn't be sitting on the cannon. We were all a little afraid of it breaking, but never fear, all's well with the cannons at Stirling.
This is my new friend Julia and I in the back gardens of the castle.
The view from the back gardens.
We spent forever trying to find a place to eat. Keep in mind that Stirling is roughly the size of Nederland, but apparently has about 13 times as many restaurants. We almost ended up at the Filling Station, but I vetoed it in favor of a quaint little pub with fish and chips.
After lunch we went to the Church in Stirling. I don't have any pictures of the outside because it was raining at this point of the afternoon and Julia's camera battery was dying. I took this picture anyways because HOW COOL?! James VI, King of Scots was crowned right where I was standing!!
Ok, just kidding, I stole some more pictures, so here is the church from the outside, courtesy of Aurelia:
I took the train home just in time to meet up with Liz and watch Hull City beat Arsenal at our pub. We also discovered that our pub serves Death by Chocolate Cake. Really, what is better than that?
At some point later that night Liz decided that we had to go to the castle, so we made our way out of Pollock Halls, through the town and up Castle Hill to view the castle and go home. On our way Liz and I tried to lose Aidan by hiding in a phone booth.
Aidan was unimpressed.
We also came across the statue of Mr. David Hume. I wish we had put the cone on his head, but he was already like this when we found him...
Liz trying to be like David Hume. We were going to steal it but decided that if you're not drunk, and the cones are this easy to steal, it's not really worth bringing it home only to get it confiscated by the cleaning ladies.
Sunday was spent doing homework and sleeping- trying to get over the Fresher's Flu we have all developed.
Tonight I'm off to a meeting with the Radio Society (called Fresh Air) to see about getting my own radio show while I'm here! Wish me luck!
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