The Rogue and The Fury: Scotland Recap in Pictures

Now that we have returned to humid Virginia, we would like to relive our trip with all of you with some choice pictures. First, we'll be recapping our Edinburgh days, which were days 1 and 10.

This is the view of Edinburgh Castle from Princes Street in New Town, about an hour or two after sunrise. Meanwhile, we had been walking for about an hour trying to find an open bakery at 7am on a Saturday . . . no luck.

The castle from the same vantage point, taken the day before when it was cloudier:

The front entrance to the castle, looking formidable. Almost as formidable as Josh's hair would have been if he weren't wearing that thing on his head:

Another view of the castle coming down from the Royal Mile toward the National Gallery of Art in New Town:

In the gardens on Castle Hill, looking back on the spires of the Royal Mile:

This is a sweet two-tiered, colorful street leading down from the Royal Mile to Old Town via Victoria Square:

Saturday morning we got up before the crack of dawn to be at this place in time for the dawn. We are standing on Calton Hill at the Dugald Stewart Monument, looking out over Edinburgh toward the castle, which you can see in the distance:

The skyline of Edinburgh, taken on our final night in Scotland while hiking Arthur's Seat around sundown. Arthur's Seat is a gorgeous hill that rears up out of Holyrood Park at the end of the Royal Mile, at Holyrood Palace and the Scottish Parliament. Local legend says that when King Arthur returns, he will come to this hill (basically every corner of Britain has its own legends and myths surrounding Arthur). Less fanciful but perhaps more important, Arthur's Seat was the site where Orson Pratt dedicated Scotland for missionary work in May 1840. He asked the Lord for 200 souls and when he left 9 months later, there were 229 members in Edinburgh. Not bad. Neither is the view:

And to close it out for Edinburgh, here is a very hungry and excited Josh with a Scottish lamb shank, served with mash and drenched in bacon and mushroom flavored gravy: