At the moment, I am waiting for the rest of my family to get ready so we can eat dinner. Today has been a very nice day filled with lots of learning.
James, our driver, picked us up at about 10 at The Torridon (of course wearing his kilt for the 3rd day in a row...I swear that's all he brought to wear). It was honestly, my favorite place we have stayed so far and it had the best food but the gorge scrambling and the biking 2 miles into Torridon made the stay wonderful. It was really sad to leave but we had more to explore.
We headed to Inverness first but on our way we stopped at a little pub, which was absolutely adorable, for lunch. The food was ok--not the best I've ever had. After lunch we stopped in a little shop that sold a lot of 'Nessie' things. Trey got a 'Nessie' hat and wore it out of the store and across the street, then proceeded to fall asleep in the hat, but that was not unusual because he has seemed to sleep thruogh almost every car ride we have taken.
We then continued our trek north eastward. Around 2:30-3ish we arrived at Urqhart Castle and watched a short film about the history of the castle and then walked over the see the ruins, or as dad likes to say "rueens" (emphasis on the ee). It was another castle but it was pretty cool. We got tons of pictures taken of us kids sticking our heads out the window and over the top. The castle is right on Loch Ness which Chuck absolutely LOVED! He has been talking about seeing 'Nessie' since he knew we were coming to Scotland. He had fallen asleep earlier in the trip, woke up and said "I didn't miss seeing Loch Ness did I?! Y'all didn't not wake me up?!" Oh Chuck.
It was about a 30 minute drive over the the Battlefield of Colludon. It was where the Jacabites and the British fought for Scotland. The British of course won. My dad was comparing it to the civil war in the US so it was a bit easier to understand the whole picture.
We are now at the Colludon house, where we are staying for tonight. Tomorrow we head to Edinburgh with little stops along the way. I am sad that this trip is coming to an end soon but I am so thankful that I have beeen blessed with this opportunity that not many people get.