We have had a few super busy, fun days in Edinburgh, Scotland! Our train ride from King's Cross Station in London began rather auspiciously. We arrived at the station in plenty of time only to find our train was delayed. Eventually an announcement was made that someone had been hit by the trai on our line further up the line. The crazy thing was they continued to make that announcement about every 10 minutes for several hours (including every stop along the way! It was rather disturbing to keep hearing that and envisioning it!). Anyway, they finally called our train an hour and a half later and we all scrambled for platform 3. Unfortunately, as they were herding us all on the train, we, along with a Canadian couple were the only ones not to have seats. They shut the doors and we stood outside the toilets for more than two hours! Lots of laughs about our expensive first class seats outside the loo.

My first class seat to Edinburgh

We sat for the remainder of the trip and were served drinks (the alcoholic kind luckily) and sandwiches and cookies. Finally arrived at Waverly Station in Edinburgh, met our friend, Anne from northern Scotland,dropped our things at our lively VRBO apartment and the Anne took us on a quick, interesting walking tour of "old town Edinburgh". We had a lovely Italian dinner over there and then called it a night.

Our little VRBO in Edinburgh

The following day, we toured Edinburgh castle - oh my, the history here! Beautiful stained glass throughout the castle and of course interesting to see the prison below where even Americans were kept at one time.. (took a picture of brother Bill behind bars:). We left there and walked down the Royal Mile and did a bit of shopping, had lunch at Deacon Brodie's place (a cabinet maker who made keys for people's homes and then broke into them and robbed people - he was eventually hung from a gallows that he designed himself).

Headed back to our place to get ready to meet Neil Smith, the RAF researcher who really connected all the dots about our Dad's crash over here. Will update the blog later about that evening - it was unbelievable and so memorable! Thanks Katy for uploading my pictures for me from Montana! The iPad won't let me do it! (You're welcome, Mom.)