Living in the Wild

So another oddity about living in the ghetto dorm is well basically it comes along with living with the wild...

I like leaving my window open all the time so I can get fresh air... and you think that wouldn't be a problemo considering I am on the top floor of the building and there are no trees for squirrels to climb into my window... well WRONG.

Nearly every morning I am visited by a grey squirrel and every evening I am visited by a red squirrel. They literally climb the walls of the building... they come from the roof... they fly... who knows how they do it! BUT they come into my room and steal my nuts... or try and steal my bread!

They are extremely cute don't get me wrong... but they are dirty and probs covered with diseases. They are probably the reason for why I am sick at the moment :S

Sometimes I scoot them on their way but now... they just stare at me blankly from the window and take a few more steps into my room... so I have to close the window... EVEN then they can crawl on the window... briefly but ... yea I think evolution has granted these little critters with web feet or something :S

My First West Highland Tour

Sooo yesterday I went on a West Highland day tour through Rabies tour company J

I woke up around 6 am, tried to catch a bus to this obscure meeting place in town because the bus was coming with the majority of the tourers from Edinburgh. So I managed to get to the meeting place by 9 am… and I meet this adorable guy from Finland. We introduce ourselves and then the tour bus comes and the driver is GORGEOUS! He is wearing a kilt and he had the most beautiful cascading auburn hair! I was in heaven! Until the guide said “I only have one pick up written down!” Sooo… it turns out that wasn’t my tour… the Finnish guy and the hot Scottish man drive away into the morning sunrise and I am left for 10 minutes at this obscure meeting place. Then finally my tour bus comes along and my tour guide is a woman…a Scottish Ellen Degeneres…

She is hilarious and very knowledgable about Scottish History… but I cursed the gods above.

The tour was sooo beautiful J We stopped off at Doune castle… then went to this amazing place called loch Awe and explored the ruins of Castle Kilchurn. IT really is like a scene from a movie… a scene suitable for Lord of the Rings! The Loch is like a rushing river, beating its way towards the castle, nearly surrounding the castle. I believe hundreds of years ago when the castle was home to the great clan chief of the Campbell’s the castle used to be surrounded completely by water and only the inhabitants knew how to cross the water without a boat.  It was magnificent J

SO we left Loch Awe and went to Invereray … I explored the beautiful sea side town, I went to the old jail J I walked to the castle/country estate of the Lord of Argyll… I EVEN GOT TO SEE HAMISH the harry Coo again J

Last stop was Loch Lomond J then back to Stirling.

It was great J

Tomorrow I might either go and visit Castle Doune and go inside it… or try my first attempt of trying to get to Dunfermline where there is a beautiful abbey and castle J

To end this blog I was nearly scared to death! A squirrel from the roof just committed suicide by jumping maybe three meters onto a tree and missed the first branch… I guess it didn’t commit suicide literally… cause it managed to pull it self up onto the next branch… yea these things are insane ninja squirrels!