Edinburgh, Scotland

When we were finished with Edinburgh Castle, we walked back down the Royal Mile and came across this mime dressed up. He wouldn't move unless you placed money in his container. We did so and he started moving, grabbed my hand as if to kiss it and my mom took our picture.

There was a bagpiper, except his was more electronic sounding. I liked what he was wearing more.

While we were waiting to take a tour, we saw this strange pierced lady. She was charging people to take her picture. I saw a sign that said she was in the guiness book of world records as having the most piercings. OUCH!!!!! I didn't pay, so I went on line later and looked her up, that's where I got her pictures. Her name is Elaine Davidson. She lives in Edinburgh and we saw her in person walking right by us.

After seeing Elaine Davidson and her many piercings, we did a tour of an underground close called Mary King's Close. This is where many people had the Bubonic Plague. It was very dark and it is said that there are ghosts down there. Woooooooooooooo.

Here's some tour guides dressed in their clothing from that time period (1600's).

Here's the close (which means like an alley between buildings). One funny/gross thing they told us was that the people living there would keep a pot in their small studio type apartment where about 12 people would sleep. They would all use the same pot for disposing of their bodily fluids (all kinds) and they were only allowed to dispose of this pot at a certain time each day. They would take the pot, throw it out the window where it would land on the streets in this close and say really loud "gardeeloo". I know I probably spelled it wrong, but you'll probably be able to say it better with that spelling. So basically...if you hear that word, you better make a run for it! Everyone did it at the same time, I think with the chimes of the clock at a certain hour. I told you it was gross/funny.

After our tour there, we heard all this bagpipe playing outside. We ran out and saw a bunch of bagpipe players. We only saw the tail end of it, darn, it sounded so nice. I LOVE that kind of music. We asked one of them is we could get a picture with him.