Adventure...

You're asking yourself "what is THAT?" It's a clootie dumpling, which is a traditional scottish desert. It is a sort of boiled bread that has fruit and nuts in it. It tastes a lot like bread pudding. We both liked it quite a lot. Hard not to like something when it's floating in cream!



This is not a picture from the Western United States, it's from the Cairngorm mountains. Who knew the Scottish highlands were so high?



This is Kilchurn Castle. It's in ruins and you can't go inside, but it's quite pretty. We had to walk through a sheep pasture, complete with sheep poop, to get there.



St. Conan's Church, as viewed from Kilchurn Castle. It's beautiful, but we were both (strangely) disappointed that the building is less than 200 years old...



The shore by Kilchurn Castle. I just thought this was a pretty picture.

Loch Ness and Inverness

When we realized we were only 78 miles from Inverness, I couldn't resist the opportunity to go THAT FAR north in Scotland! Not to mention, we got to see Loch Ness! The first picture is Urquhart Castle, a castle ruins on the shores of Loch Ness. It was technically closed by the time we got there, so this was the best picture I could get. The second picture was taken from the shore of Loch Ness. Unfortunately, "Nessie" (the "monster," but she doesn't like to be called that) is shy around cameras. The third picture is just a pretty shot in the Loch Ness area.

Carlisle, Cumbria County, UK

We stopped in Carlisle on the way from Oban back to London. For those of you from Pennsylvania, the similarities are interesting: 1) Carlisle, PA is in Cumberland County, Carlisle, UK is in Cumbria County; 2) Both places have/had Constables, Carlisle, UK's "Cumbria Constabulary," and Carlisle, PA "Hilary and Elizabeth Constable" :)

BRACE YOURSELVES

Tuesday of next week there will be a new post: Josh and Elizabeth's Adventures in SCOTLAND!

I wanted to give you all a heads up, this is going to be an exciting one!

Our weekend in Paris

Paris was so awesome! We were staying in a hotel about 5 minutes from Montmartre. Josh had the LSAT on Saturday, so I spent that day walking around by myself. I decided not to speak English for the entire day, which was fun and exciting because I haven't taken French in a really long time. I managed to do it though!

Surprisingly, I found myself most excited about art museums. I do enjoy art, but I didn't expect to like spending hours in museums. I've posted a bunch of pictures (see below). I saw several Van Gogh pieces, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, etc. It was actually a little overwhelming to see so many great, classic pieces. It also made me want to go to Amsterdam to the Van Gogh museum!

We were sitting on a park bench eating panini and I learned something new about French children: they love to terrorize pigeons. They chase them and kick at them. It seemed: 1) cliche and 2) very evil.

Sites of Paris

Some of my favorite paintings from La Musee d'Orsay and La Musee de L'Orangerie