Day 68

Let's just quickly talk about this trivia game last night. It was in our hostel's common room, and our bus was split up into two teams. The first question was to name 5 James Bonds, which was easy in my opinion. However, Emelia and I were with three other people, and they insisted that David Tennant was a James Bond. I said Pierce Brosnan as one, and they laughed and basically said who is that. So we got that one wrong. Poor mom. Another question was name 10 countries that have four letters in their name. So we got 7 of them, and then I spent the rest of the time thinking of more. Finally I said Togo, and they laughed and said that was a dumb answer. Togo. Togo is a country. And I was called dumb. People are so infuriating. Anyways, I thought that would be the last stupid comment made but of course no. Another question was where was chess invented. I said either China or India, and once again they told me that I was wrong because there were no knights or queens or anything in India or China so instead they wrote down the UK. It was India. So of course, we lost. After the quiz Emelia and I went to head back to our room to go to bed, and this girl in our room basically told us we were so boring because we were going to bed at 10. Mind you she slept the entire trip today, but she was so judgmental. I don't like other college kids. It's official. Anyways~

Today we drove up to the Isle of Skye! We ate breakfast at the hostel and then got on the bus at around 8:30. It was raining a little as we made it to our first stop which was this 'faerie graveyard'. Basically, people stack rocks on top of one another on the side of this road where the bad faeries are buried so that if they come back to life they can't crawl their way out of the ground. We all got to make one, which was pretty cool. We then traveled up to the Isle of Skye and stopped at different random parking stops to get out and take photos of the mountains and the views. It's a good thing that  I wore my boots because we hiked through mud to see a waterfall. Some girl actually sunk through mud and her entire leg sunk through and was covered. Pretty terrible. It was really fun hiking down rocks and everything. We then stopped  at the Eilean Donan Castle for more photo ops. It was so beautiful. It's only 600 pounds for every half hour there if you want to get married there. After that we went to this little river where we learned about a story between two clans. Basically to sum it up, two families were fighting so to solve their feud they each gave their ugliest child to marry one another to bond the families. The bride on the way there, though, poked out her eye, but her family tried to hide it from the groom. When the groom saw she had no eye, he didn't want to marry her, so she cried near this river. The faerie king heard her cries and told her that the river has magical healing powers, and to dip her face into the river for 7 seconds and she would be healed and would never age. She was then cured, and then they got married and whatnot. So, of course, as tradition, we all had to stick our faces in the river for 7 seconds. It wasn't that cold because it had stopped raining and there was sun, but it was a pretty cool thing to get to experience. After that we drove around more, stopping at different scenic spots. We actually stopped to take a picture of a full double rainbow. That was a pretty incredible shot. We then stopped to get lunch at a little town, and then headed up onto the cliffs. We pulled over and we were basically allowed to explore the cliffs. There were paths right on top of them through sheep and everything. We got to hike up and down the cliffs and Mom probably would have had a heart attack seeing me climb cliffs. But at the bottom there was this beautiful waterfall, so it was worth trekking through sheep. It was all on a path, though, so it wasn't as bad as I probably just made it sound. It was really fun. That was pretty much the last stop of our tour. We stopped quickly for a rest stop, then drove the two hours straight back to our hostel for the night, getting here at about 6:30. For supper I actually decided to try haggis, as it was that or a pot pie. The haggis was stuffed inside of a chicken breast, so it wasn't that bad. Tonight there's this battle between the tour buses, whatever that means, so hopefully it won't be annoying as tonight.