We got up the next morning and realized that our trip was halfway over. It was going by too quickly. However, we still had the rest of the day, so we got up and walked over to meet the opentop bus. Our tickets we had bought the day before were good for 24 hours, so we could still catch the first bus. We made it and got to see the half of the tour that we had missed before. We rode it over until we got to the Royal Museum and decided we'd get off and have a look. We actually spent a lot of time there looking at everything. They even had Dolly, the sheep that was the first to be cloned.
The Scot Memorial from the tour bus
Dolly the Sheep from the Royal Musuem
A view of Edinburgh from the top of the Royal Musuem
After we finished up at the Museum, we decided to wander around on the Royal Mile a bit more and see if we could find anything for lunch. We eventually found a nice pub just in time since we were all famished. Dan got a bit more haggis, but none of the rest of us were brave enough and settled for nice normal things like hamburgers and nachos.
View of downtown
A bagpipe player
After lunch, we didn't really have a plan, so we just wandered around looking in the shops and exploring. We eventually ended up at the elephant house, which is where JK Rowling wrote most of the first Harry Potter book. We decided to stop here for a quick coffee (mainly to give Tami an opportunity to take pictures)
After that, we headed over to the National Gallery of Scotland. We looked around a little bit and there were some nice paintings and statues, but the most impressive was the statue of the Three Graces, which reminded us of the one at the Louvre. After the National Gallery, it was time to start looking for the bus back to the airport.
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