Edinburgh, Scotland

After London we flew from the London City airport to Edinburgh. If you are flying out of London and can fly from London City do it! It is a wonderful small airport, that isn't very busy. It's a super quaint not busy airport, which is nice especially in London. Anyways, we flew to Edinburgh and stayed 2 nights there. (I wish we could've stayed longer!) We stayed at the Apex Waterloo Hotel. Which was a nice hotel right in the middle of town. We could pretty much walk everywhere. We did the hop on hop off bus tour, which i HIGHLY recommend in any town you are in. It gives you an overview of the city and then you can get off and see what you want. It was great. The first day we just rode it and only got off at the Edinburgh Castle and the Scotch Whiskey experience and then our second day we went to Holyrood Palace. The "new" main street in Edinburgh has some great shopping and the "old" main street (to the castle) has some good touristy shopping, if you are looking for typical Scottish things. The second day we were there that afternoon we went to St Andrews. It is about an hour and half away, but gorgeous to see. The golf course is so pretty and it's right on the ocean. The town of St. Andrews is also so pretty. I wish we could have stayed the night there and I know if we get back to Scotland we will. It was a very cute smaller town with lots to do. Seeing the countryside was wonderful. Everything was so green and pretty.The view from the Castle
Listening to our audio guides at Holyrood Palace. Another thing I recommend is getting the audio guides at places that offer them. They have some great info on them!
Part of the ruins of Holyrood Abbey
The hubs and I in front of the abbey
Holyrood Abbey

At Holyrood Palace- This is the Queen's resident when she is in Scotland
The Scotch Monument in the center of town with beautiful hydrangeas
The hubby at the Scotch Whiskey experience.
The Chapel at the Edinburgh Castle
The Edinburgh Castle

London

The end of July we went to London, Edinburgh and Paris with my parents and sister. We had an amazing time. The first day we took an overview tour of London. We saw most of the highlights on London and got to visit Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London. That evening we went to a nice restuurant by our hotel. We stayed at the St James Sofitel. It was an amazing hotel. Nice size rooms and wonderful beds! =)Lance and I in Trafalager Square. Probably one of the busiest places I've ever been in the evenings. It was PACKED with people. Street performers, tourist, locals, everyone!
My chocolate raspberry shake at the Chocolate Bar in Harrods. If you are in London go to this place. It is AMAZING!! First off Harrods is CRAZY! It's so big and seriously has everything, but the chocolate bar is wonderful! YUMMY

The family in front of Parliament and Big Ben
The Eye of London and the Thames River. The street performers on the river are amazing. They are so entertaining! Also there are some great place to eat on the river down from the Eye. Walking around in the evening was so much fun and so entertaining.
The Tower Bridge
My sister and I with a Beefeater
London was very nice. The weather was wonderful and we got to see so many things! Our next stop is the gorgeous Edinburgh, Scotland

Long time......

Ok I've negelected my blog long enough!!! We have done so much since I last blogged so I'll start from after my birthday! We went to Michigan to visit some friends. We had a wonderful time. We went to the Mackinaw bridge, which connects lower Michigan to the upper part.

I caught the biggest bass of the season!! (it may be the biggest anyone's caught from that pond!!)

We also went to San Antonio in July for a hunting show, but we got to play too! We went to the Alamo and Sea World. It was my sisters birthday so her and her friend swam with the beluga whales.

Also at the hunting show I got to meet Matt Hughes (a UFC fighter) He was very nice and walked around the show and visited different booths

Ok the next posts will be a little longer. We went to Europe with my parents so I'll do a couple post on that with pictures!