RoBOT

Good morning, we are from the RoBOT association, i.e. Ruination of Battery Operated Toys.  I am pleased to announce that our movement is alive and well in Scotland.  As I was walking around in Edinburgh with fellow associates, we passed a pile of garbage in front of some personal apartments.  I wasn't paying it much heed, until suddenly I heard a strange voice nearby.  As I assessed the garbage pile, I realized that some brave soul had tossed the plaything, battery and all, straight into the rubbish bin.  I can just picture the debacle: a child with its monstrous pile of plastic, the buttons being pressed nonstop, the mother's mind slowly deteriorating, and finally the mother ripping away the toy and tossing it away.  I've made sure that a RoBOT associate will be contacting her promptly.

In related k-news, one of the associates I was walking with was our cousin who we stayed with in New York.  When we were staying with her, we found out that she was going to be in Scotland at the same time as us, so we were able to hook up and see Edinburgh together.  We did a very nice tour underneath some of the buildings along the Royal Mile, where we got some history of Scotland in the 17th century.  The streets that people lived along were called closes and went from the Royal Mile down to the river.  They were very narrow.  Twice a day, people would empty their waste into the streets, and it would flow down the close to the river below, and if you needed to walk down the street, you'd be walking through other people's waste.  So...don't you wish you'd lived in Scotland during that time?  Yeah, I thought so.  But it was a very interesting glimpse of what life was like back then.  

Later, while we were having lunch with our cousin, we found out that they were headed to England next, and then Ireland.  So we will be in Dublin at the same time, and later in Galway at the same time.  What are the odds?  Three different countries, and we happen to be there at the same time every time!

Aside from all that, we've walked the Royal Mile a few times, walked around the New Town area, and looked into the Writer's Museum and the Edinburgh Museum.  We also got to take a little tour on how the Scotch Whisky is made.  Which is, of course, a very very important part of the Scottish culture.  And I've had haggis as well.  It was actually really really good.  People are silly to be grossed out.

Tomorrow we'll be going on a day tour to Loch Ness, and get to take in the beauty of the Highlands.  Yay!

Did ew know...?

The five steps to appreciating Scotch Whisky are colour, body, nose, palate, and finish.

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