Glamis Castle, Scotland

Stonehaven Scotland

Hamster outfits (no joke).  They are guaranteed to fit your hamster.  They were in the clearance bin if you can believe it....

We've been traveling for the last couple of days so no posts...exciting things to come though...In Edinburgh now...

Aberdeen, Scotland:

Smart Car...three cars in two parking spaces...great for parking but...how do you get out?

One other note on my missive on driving on the "different" side of the road in Ireland...The Irish don't alternate addresses between sides of the street.  In the US, odd numbers are on one side of the street and even numbers are on the other.  In Dublin, they go sequentially on each side of the street.  So and you can have businesses with a number of, say, 62...but across the street the the business can have a number of 8...or 250...very confusing.  They think it makes more sense this way.  Like driving on the unnatural side of the road...

Near Aberdeen, Scotland:                                  We went to Aberdeen today so I could say that I've been to three Aberdeen (Scotland, Maryland and Washington).  On the way we visited two castles, Crathes and Drum...Both were donated to the Scottish government because the landowners couldn't afford to keep them up.  Anyway, they were both closed but were awesome from the outside.  As Carolyn calls them all by the generic ADC (another damn castle). 

Braemar, Scotland:
Went to see this Castle but it was closed.  Wanted to see Balmoral Castle but the queen is in residence.  Lots more castles though...one has to be open.  Graveyard below dates from early 1700s.

Braemar, Scotland:
Really?