[three flights later]
[i reached edinburgh]
[the first of many scones]
[then we started house hunting]
Greetings!
It is our first morning in Edinburgh which
I'm going to pronounce that way the entire
time so if I'm wrong, so be it.
Kayla is sick and I arrived at 11pm so I'm
also in a semi-zombie state and we're just
going to wander around.
So, let's wander around.
[this group photo was an ORDEAL]
We were just
talking about how in the Scottish Gallery
there were lots of paintings with rainbows
and I was like 'I feel like we never really
see rainbows anymore in art' and well wouldn't
you know, there is a rainbow!
We manifested it.
We are currently in - go ahead.
Oh sorry lol.
We're going this way.
Okay.
So Kayla is obviously navigator for this.
We are in the Grey Kirk?
Grey yard kirk?
Greyfriars Kirkyard.
And this is apparently where JK Rowling walked
around and got a lot of inspiration for - I
stepped in a lot of mud - for names in the
Harry Potter books so we're currently searching
for some people.
We walked around once and didn't find any.
We're going to walk around with directions
now.
Let's go find them.
[thanks friend]
[someone like me!!!]
So we just got fish and chips from the local
fish fry/chippy which was great but there
was also a man in there who was talking to
us and he was very nice.
Then he said something like "oh you must be
irish" because of my hair color.
I told him I thought that in Scotland I was
not rare so I was excited to come here and
he said no, my hair color is rare.
So waste of a trip.
We're going home tomorrow.
And that's it, thanks Edinburgh for nothing.
We're leaving.
But anyway no just kidding, we love it and
we're going to eat now.
Good morning from Scotland.
Little bit stuffy, it is officially my summer
to autumn transitional cold that I get every
year so it's kind of welcome, it means autumn
is coming.
Edinburgh is beautiful, wonderful, doesn't
look real.
I can't get enough of it, I love it so much.
I will move here.
But anyway, I have been journaling just so
I remember everything that is happening but
I also have started doodling and you guys
know that I have been trying to just draw
more and kind of get out of my head about
it not being perfect.
Which reminds me that I want to give a shout
out to this video's sponsor.
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I took a lot of pictures and when I get home
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We're now going to head out, it's going to
be an eventful day.
I'm going to drain this tea.
I definitely had hob nobs for breakfast.
Scotland is amazing, I'm never leaving.
Great.
I will see you guys later.
[our only rainy day in edinburgh]
The cemetery specifically said 'do not touch the
plants' we're cursed now.
We look like the evil step sisters in Cinderella.
This is wrong.
It's not me, it's the quill.
Oh maybe it is me.
[the standard home pharmacy literally had
poison]
Okay, checking in.
I haven't checked in in a while.
We have done so much today but it's been raining
so it's been a little bit difficult to vlog.
But I am now at the top of Granny's Green
Steps on our way to the castle.
We were told that maybe we should spend the
whole day in the castle but we're kind of
thinking we don't necessarily need that, we
kind of just enjoyed the view of it from below.
So we're going to see.
Worst case scenario we can come tomorrow when
it will not be raining.
So we're going to get out of this rain, catch
our breath, continue way up and yeah so far
I feel like we've just been saying this to
each other but we haven't been saying it to
the camera, Edinburgh is blowing our minds.
We love it, we've picked out all of our houses,
our many new homes.
We only have 8.
We're basing it mostly on the windows and
the doors.
But yeah anyway let's go before it closes.
Onward.
I hate this (mannequins) It's too dark to
see but there is a - oh my god!
I hate this so much.
I literally can't see anything [our queen
of darkness, kayla]
So to the people who suggested
The Baked Potato Shop, you did not tell us
how big the potatoes were.
What?!
We're dying.
So thanks a lot but we're excited so here
we go.
[baked potato with avocado, cheese, tomato,
and onion]
We are now searching for live music
We would like to cry a little bit.
Yes.
[this bar had a bunch of instruments
so anyone could join if they wanted]
[think of it as scottish karaoke lol]
[casual coffee
in the shadow of the castle]
Okay, so we went
to the farmers market for breakfast and now
we're going to go climb Arthur's Seat.
Our feet are very tired but we have to do
it.
So here we go.
It is a wonderful sunny day, a couple clouds
in the sky.
Let's go climb a Seat!
My ears are secure.
Let's go.
[my phone almost flew out of my hand]
More
updates later but we were way up there.
We took a wrong way down and then we took
the steep way down and now I can't feel my
legs but I also can if you know what I mean.
So now we're heading to food.
Bye.
Greetings, we are in the green houses, the
glass houses here at the Botanical Gardens.
Each one of them is a very different temperature
to help the plants thrive and I have found
that I am officially as if we didn't already
know, I am a moss/fern in another life.
Because this is the ideal temperature, I feel
very happy with my green little family.
I love it.
Worth the 6 pounds.
[rose almond ice cream]
[last breakfast in
edinburgh]
Okay we're getting on the train.
Goodbye Edinburgh.
I'm so bouncy hold on, you can keep walking
I'm walking slower.
Okay we are getting on the train to Glasgow,
thank you Edinburgh for everything.
You were beautiful, you were magical.
I'm sad to leave you but Glasgow here we come
and then out into the wild Scotland frontier.
So we've been in Glasgow for less than an
hour, an hour?
So many redheads of my shade.
I'm feeling at home.
I'm very happy here.
So Kayla is very excited about this cone [ putting
cones on statues is apparently a bit of a
scottish tradition] We were looking for cones
the whole time.
And finally, here it is.
So this is our one full day in Glasgow.
As you can tell, my cold has changed into
manipulating my voice so please excuse me.
We are here at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery
and Museum.
We've got tea scheduled.
We've got a lot of things, we just had delicious
donuts.
It looks like a wonderful day.
The sky is crazy blue.
Yeah let's go.
So, Glasgow has been a little bit difficult
to vlog but we've decided it is very nice
and we would like to live in an apartment
near Kelvingrove.
There are so many dogs here.
This is a wonderful place.
But now we're heading back to city centre
and then we're going to get tea.
That's definitely you.
[arrived too late to visit the cemetery]
Hi
guys, so it is our last night in Glasgow.
We actually only had one full day.
I wish we had a lot more time.
We were both kind of at the tail end of our
sicknesses so it was just really nice - we
walked around really slowly, we watched a
lot of Great British Bake Off and we just
sat in the park.
We were blessed, we had such good weather.
There's so much sun and in Scotland I hear
that's not very common.
So yeah I wish I did Glasgow a little bit
more justice in the vlog.
It was kind of hard to capture because it
seems like there's a lot of really interesting
cafes and eateries and stuff like that but
we couldn't eat that much and we just saw
a lot of really cool things from the bus window.
So it was kind of difficult to film but the
public art and everything - also the fashion.
Everybody here dresses so interestingly.
People take a lot more fashion risks here.
There are also so many more red heads than
there were in Edinburgh.
I was overwhelmed.
I've never seen that many people that look
like me in my entire life.
So that was really interesting.
But yeah starting tomorrow early in the morning,
we're going to head out west.
We're going to rent a car and head out west
and then straight north.
We're going to hit a couple of the Isles but
I'm going to do that in a separate vlog.
Hopefully my voice comes back for that.
The trip has been so great.
Everyone we've met has been so nice.
Even though it's a little difficult understanding
everybody, the accents vary.
It's been a trip.
It's been wonderful.
Thank you again to SKillshare for sponsoring
this video, I can't believe it, Very exciting.
Don't forget to check out my link in the description
box.
I will keep you updated on my sketching.
I will get back into that and I will post
some more of that on Instagram as I work on
them.
And yeah I will see you guys in the next vlog.
Thank you as always for joining me and yeah
- also thank you to everybody on Instagram
who have been giving me recommendations and
everything for Scotland.
Thank you Edinburgh for being absolutely beautiful.
This trip has been really really great and
we are only halfway through!
I will see you guys in the next half.
Hopefully there are a lot more sheep.
Going to be out in the country, a lot of green,
a lot of mountains.
So yeah I will see you guys then.
And thank you for everything.
Bye!
