We took taxis to our hotel rooms and settled in a bit before meeting for dinner. At Ciao Roma, an Italian restaurant that we went to, I had a delicious pizza with chicken on it. After dinner, we walked to Summerhall where we participated in Ceilidh dances. Dancing was so much fun and I really enjoyed it even though I am not a dancer.
Today, we started our day early by visiting the Old Moray house, which is one of the oldest original aristocratic mansions. The building belongs to the University of Edinburgh. The Old Nursery School Building was neat. The building was designed so that there would be no separation between indoors and outdoors. The teaching style was very different.
During our short break, Hillary and I went to different shops and stopped at the Museum of Childhood. There were different toys from different eras. We saw old shoes, old dolls with pictures of their owners, and a machine that showed a haunted house scene. We then had a conversation with one of the cashiers at a shop about American stereotypes. He kept saying he didn't want to offend us but the stereotypes he gave as examples were hilarious.
We went to The National Museum of Scotland and I read about the climate. There used to be ginormous bugs in Scotland and one looked like a giant mixture of a crab and a cockroach.
We went under the city and into the Real Mary Queen's Close. It was dark under there and it was home to people from the 1650s. I learned a lot about the Bubonic Plague and how Scotland handled it. Apparently they "cured" the plague by draining the pustules and closing them up with a burning hot item until the wounds closed up. The ghost story of Annie was neat and the first ghost story written in Scotland was spooky and of course our tour guide dropped something heavy when it the story reached its climax.
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