Points North and Scotland

To finish our trip up north...

We left the cottage and took a few pictures...  this was along the little road that we traveled on each day.  Keswick was to the right in the picture below...

Just missing my husband in this beautiful picture.

Here we are on the Ashness Bridge.  Very cute, old, and very narrow!

Then we headed to Carlisle and visited the castle.

I am related to Henry I, he is my 31st or 32nd great grandfather! Sadly, since my family decided to emigrate, we have lost all rights to the crown.  Plus, we are related to the royal family through Henry I's oldest illegitimate son, Robert FitzRoy.  Robert wouldn't take the throne, our family surely can't!

Here are my sons, playing with the canons!

Carlisle had proper dungeons!  I say that because we have visited many castles that did not have a proper dungeon.

When we arrived in Carlisle, we spied the McVite factory!  McVite's are really good tea biscuits.  The chocolate and carmel ones are our favorites!

After we explored the castle we crossed the border into Scotland.  We spent a few days wandering around.  The first day we went to Rosslyn Chapel.  It was the chapel featured in The Da'Vinci Code.  Pictures were not allowed inside, so I don't have any to share here.  The second day was rainy and we spent it wandering around Edinburgh.  We visited Hollyrood Castle and walked the Royal Mile.  It was a day that not many pictures were taken either.

The one thing that we did not do was find my 9 year old some good lamb to eat.  He really likes lamb and we thought that it would be easy to find.  We had extremely bad luck in our wanderings though and we did not find any!