Scotland Day 2

Our second day began by waking up to a crispy, frosty morning.  I had a typical hostel breakfast.  It’s pretty basic: toast, jam, bland cereal, hard-boiled eggs.  We all meet on the bus and begin our 2^nd day.  Our tour guide set us up to plant a couple of trees.  They are trying to rebuild their native forest and we helped them out!

After that, we got back in the bus and made our way to Loch Ness to see if we could spot, “The Loch Ness Monster.”  We went down by the lake = loch, and our tour guide had us do this goofy dance to try and get “Vanessa,” to come out and say, “hello.”  After looking like fools, we did not manage to see Nessie.  I am a believer though!

Next we made our way to see the battlefield of Culloden.  This is where the Jacobite (Scottish Rebels) fought their last battle with the British for freedom.  It was a slaughter due to many variables, but it’s an interesting story in Scottish history.

We made a few other stops throughout the day including an old rock formation site, where they are not sure what it was used for.  

We also learned about the fairies of Scotland and stopped off at this spot where you would leave something that represented an ailment of yours and the fairies would help you out.  See pictures!









The day came to and end and Kelsey and I stopped at the hostel pub for a pint and listened to a local one-man-band sing a couple songs.