Me, You, an' a Heeland Coo

Och aye - have yeh seen any heeland coo late'ly?!

Ah yes. The great and fantastic "heeland coo"... aka - the highland cow. Basically, a strange and hairy beast with a fringe of hair across its bangs that would put an emo hipster to shame. These "coo" were but a mini highlight of our trip across the highlands of Scotland.

Our first day had us joining up with a group of "Jimmies" (4 Aussies who wore the tartan red hats with red "hair" peaking out the ENTIRE WEEKEND (these hats are referred to as "Jimmy Hats")), an obnoxious Polish-Canadian student from Ottawa U (Ew. Sound familiar?! I am disgraced by this boy who was NOT me, despite some basic similarities...), and a few other smatterings of your token Japanese, American, and New Zealanders. We wound through the roads out of Edinburgh, up to our stay for two nights, a gorgeous hostel in Stromeferry (right up north, by the Isle of Skye), at break neck speeds, stopping here and there to admire historical points & pee. (30 pence for a pee being the low point of one of our pee breaks...) (I should clarify that we did not actually pee ON the historical point. It kind of reads that way, don't it.)

Day 2 was much of the same, but with higher cliffs and even more breathtaking scenery on the Isle of Skye, and today/Day 3 came to a close with a broken door on our mini-tour bus, with a fantastic last ditch attempt by our driver/guide, Ewan, to get one poor girl onto a train on time after our door delay in Inverness. (They didn't make it, but MAN did it make for a FANTASTIC bit of driving and gazelle-like dashing across Edinburgh!)

In the end, we didn't see Nessie, but we did have a great visit with Heidi and Eryn, and are already contemplating how much more luggage we might need by the end of this grand adventure. (Just me? Ugh...) A perfect Scottish adventure, even if my pure malt scotch whisky (Whisky Experience Tour, what?!) DID taste a bit like pears and death.

HA. At least I didn't spew like the hung over Canadian boy on our highlands tour did though...

Ah, but that's another story. ;)

Much love to all from here; London TOMORROW!

(Weeeeeee!)

Love,

Ange & the Canuck Crew

Nessie??

Only Fake Nessie.

**These photos compliments of one most wonderful Heidi St. Hill.