We woke up to a room filled with sunshine, had a terrific breakfast, which included home made scones and it was a great start to our last day. Lefty (the car) got dropped off and we spent most the rest of the day on foot in the city. All of we wanted to do was visit some shops and enjoy Edinburgh. The sunny skies changed about an hour after we left the house without rain jackets and we got to duck in and out of shops with a little more frequency. When we had first arrived in Edinburgh and visited various shoppes we saw a wide variety of things that we liked or thought others would like, but we thought we'd set things aside and pick up later - today was the day that we'd tried to remember where things were.
Cadenhead's is one of the shoppes we popped in to, Maggie (a Scottie) was sleeping in the window (she is the spot of gray hair in the lower left). We didn't get to take Maggie with us, but we did some more whisky and we have plenty to share!
Our return to the guest house in the afternoon was well timed because the heavens opened for a full bore thunderstorm, which Beth tried to capture in several photos. We found a new restaurant down the block, enjoyed our last pints in Scotland and spent the evening packing. This trip was a long awaited trip and it was long overdue - we've had several discussions about our next trip and we've also discussed remodeling the basement to look like a pub. When we got married we said we would travel to Scotland for our fifth anniversary and we made it on our 11th anniversary! This was been a wonderful experiences and we look forward to sharing more stories and photos.
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