Scotish Highlands Tour

Today we took a guided mini-bus tour through the Scotish Highlands. We departed on our journey after a quick stop by Starbucks so that Buffy could have her fix. As we entered into the Highlands the beautiful mountains and glens dominated the landscape. Except for the rare small town there is nothing but landscape up here. The areas we drove through covered a lot of Scotish history in their fight for independence from the British. Our tour headed to the northwest through Stirling and towards the Great Glen. The Great Glen is a series of four Lochs (one salt water three fresh water) that run northeast through southwesterly through the middle of Scotland. They are all connected together by a river and lock system. The most northerly Loch is Loch Ness. Our tour stopped in the town of Fort Augustus at the southern tip of Loch Ness and we took a 1 hour boat cruise. No Nessie on this trip. Following the time on Loch Ness we headed back south through the heartland of Scotland. For our dinner stop we hit a small village. With only a few restaurant choices that could provide dinner in 30 minutes we mentioned to the kids that we could eat at MacDonalds. Of course Emilie was like "but I don't like McDonalds" and Tori was excited as usual. Well the old folks pulled a fast one on them by going to a local restaurant called MacDonalds and not the golden arches. After the end of the trip we got to see the new city of Edinburgh courtesy of closed roads and a Garmin trying to get us home.