The Edinburgh castle is very large and takes hours to get through. It is visited annually by about 1 million people. Edinburgh Castle was the home (and regular refuge) of Scottish Kings. The Royal apartments include a tiny room in which Mary, Queen of Scots gave birth to the boy who was to become King James IV of Scotland and James 1 of England upon the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603.
This is a guy who gave us a presentation on kilts. He told us how to put them on and wear them. He also told us all about haggis. He said that haggis were creatures who have four legs but two are longer than the others. That way when they were on a hill they would be even. He told us how to catch haggis too. He said to make a loud noise so that the haggis would turn around making them uneven with the hill and fall over right into a net. Now if you believe that you'll believe anything. Haggis is really sheep heart, liver, and lungs. That sounds really gross to me.
After the castle we took a bus tour and our tour guide was very funny. He told us a lot of crazy things like in the 1600s at 10pm every night people who lived in the higher homes would open their windows and shout,"gardyloo" which meant they were going to dump the slop bucket out. If you hear "gardyloo" don't look up just run. He also told us where the saying "hangers on" came from. When they used to do hangings it was a very slow death so some times the people who were getting hanged would pay kids to hang on to their legs while they were being hanged so that they would die faster.
This is Holyrood Palace. As a part of the agreement for Scotland joining The United Kingdom the king or queen has to stay here 6 consecutive days a year or the agreement is broken.
After I went to Holyrood Palace I climbed Arther's seat. Arther's seat is a very tall mountain and very fun to climb. Unfortunately we took the wrong way up which made it quite a bit harder to climb but luckily we made it.
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