Climax

 It has been a while since we have updated on our adventures! We are currently on a train in the Netherlands bound for Slagharen to visit Wilma. We took a brand new Stena Line ferry across from the UK last night and we stayed in a 2-berth cabin which was really neat.. We are sad to leave Tim and Katie in Edinburgh since we were having such a blast!!  Just for Tim we put the title of our blog as "climax" because he claims the trip cannot get any better after being in Scotland. Last Sunday the four of us headed up to St.Andrews for the day and toured the golf courses and ate lunch on the beach. Tim and Mike had a bet in which Mike went into the North Sea river in exchange for a beer. The temperature is estimated between 10-14 C. Brrr. Monday through Wednesday we got to experience the Highlands while touring with Haggis Adventures and it was definitely a success - we met some great people and had a couple really fun nights! It was our first hostel experience and lets just say Sam hates people who snore. The one morning was a little rough due to alcohol consumption but we managed haha. Thursday we trained to Glasgow for the day and ended up spending most of our time in their Science museum which is completely hands on! With a computer generator we had a chance to view what we would  "look like" as a monkey, old man/woman, child, opposite sex, cartoon, African american, Asian etc. Of course we took photos which are hilarious. Mike is a good looking African American and Sam looks hilarious as a man. Friday we went into Edinburgh on the Royal Mile to experience the Fringe Festival. The street was packed with performers and people giving away fliers to their shows. We just walked down the mile collecting papers shoved at us - emptied them into the recycling at the end - before turning around and doing it all again. We saw some entertaining acts from the traditional statues, uni-cycles, juggling to the more bizzare including people in morph suits and a man with the Guinness world record number of elastic bands on his face. We ended the night with a bang - delicious dinner and drinks with Tim and Katie!  It is almost time to switch trains so off we go! We send our love and miss everyone back home.

OH and we do have a cellphone now - unfortunately we did not get the waterproof one since the shipping took too long. But we are back in business!