Adventures in Edinburgh

Kyle & I have been busy exploring Edinburgh since we last posted.  We still don’t have internet in our apartment (which is why we haven’t posted sooner) and won’t until next Monday, after that we’ll be able to post more often! 

Today, we explored more of Holyrood park.  This park is huge (not sure how big) but you can see from the pictures very large.  It’s only about a 15 minute walk from our flat and it’s great for Deacon. It is amazing to me that there is a park this large in any major city! Isn’t it beautiful? 

Right by Holyrood Park is the Scottish Parliament.  We got to view the Chamber room where the magic happens. 

Chamber Room in the Scottish Parliament

Also, everything in the Parliament building is bilingual.  Spanish and English? French and English? Nope, you guessed it...Gaelic & English! Here’s proof: 

Leaving Scottish Parliament

Scottish Parliment is located on what is referred to as the Royal Mile.  At one end of the street is the Palace at Holyrood House (this is the official residence of Her Majesty when she is in Scotland) and at the other end is the Edinburgh Castle.  The mile is full of shops, restaurants and churches.  The church we went to on Sunday is actually located on the Royal Mile.  Kyle & I were very surprised that when the pastor started speaking he had an American accent. Turns out the pastor is from New York! Small world...We both really liked the church and are very excited to find a place where can settle down and start meet people! Here are a few pictures of things we saw on the Royal Mile: 

Bagpipe player..classic

St. Gile's Cathedral

Finally, went to Greyfriar’s Kirk.  You may have heard of Greyfriar’s Bobby.  The story is that a dog named “Bobby” stayed in the church’s graveyard and guarded his master’s grave for 14 years.  After bobby died he was buried in the graveyard and a statue was erected in his honor. 

Greyfriar's Bobby

Greyfriar's Kirk graveyard

We are really enjoying Edinburgh so far.  One week from tomorrow Kyle starts school which he was told by the Director of the program that “if you can survive your first semester you can survive anything”. Not sure is that supposed to be comforting or not but it should be an experience for both of us! We’ll try to post again this weekend with more photos. 

-Stacie