New Years Eve!
We stopped here to see a spectacular view of the royal palace (it's behind us and in between the mountain). We went to ANOTHER whisky distillery (the tour guide was super excited about this by the way). We finished the tour and were dropped off by Edinburgh Castle. We decided we want to see the castle and got in line which ate a big chunk of our time. We only had a few minutes to see the whole entire castle, before we needed to meet back on the bus. While in line, it started snowing!
Notice the clear blue skies here...didn't look like it was going to snow! Here is the front of the castle:
We made our way back to the hotel to eat dinner and then it was off to Princes Street for the celebration. We got dropped off around 7:30 pm to check everything out. We found that everything was closed on the street BUT a Starbucks. We got some coffee and stayed in there for a while. It was freezing outside!! After Starbucks, we walked around for a while and then got in position for a great view of the castle. A few minutes before the countdown, some idiot threw a beer into the crowd and it hit Ben's camera and ruined it! It also hit some Asian guys ear...I'm pretty sure it was bleeding! We got over that situation and were happy again once the fireworks started! The fireworks were the best I'd ever seen in my whole life! I'll upload the video a little later!
Welcome to 2010!
On the way back home, we saw these very interesting crisps:
I mean, who wouldn't want Roast Ox flavored crisps?
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