Glasgow & Inverness, Scotland

For my birthday Jason took me up north to Scotland for a long weekend. We hopped on a train from Newcastle up to Glasgow, spent the night there, and then spent the next night up in Inverness. Here's Jason showing that we road first class up to Glasgow! :) Yes I know we're special, but the catch was that first class was some how actually cheaper than a regular seat! Go figure!:)

Waiting to take off!

Glasgow, Scotland city center. Train ride up to Glasgow took about 3 hours. We spent the rest of the day wandering around the town and seeing the sites.

City Center Glasgow

City building in the city center

St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art. This was a great free museum that was very interesting and fun to go through.

Should have remembered this from my religion 101 class at MSU, but this is Shiva as Nataraja (Lord of the Dance) from the Hindu religion.

Jason wanted to take this picture for his brother-in-law Greg! This painting shows a Jewish Sabbath meal.

Mexican Skeleton, don't remember what it said about it, but something about how they dress up in skeletons to hide from the dead. (Honestly don't remember, but thought it was a cool picture!)

Glasgow Necropolis with Glasgow Cathedral on the left

Glasgow Necropolis, huge cemetery at the top of the city. They buried the dead up here to help stop the spread of infection.

Glasgow Cathedral

More of the necropolis

As you can see it was a large burial ground.

Largest monument we saw in the cemetery.

Such a beautiful day, sunny but still chilly outside.

Inside the cathedral.

Beautiful stain glass windows

Oldest house in Glasgow. St. Nicholas Hospital, founded in 1471 AD.

Enjoying a birthday drink with my hubby!

Inverness, Scotland. We left Glasgow early the next day and took another 3 hour train ride up to Inverness. Once we arrived we checked into our hotel, enjoyed a nice lunch, and went to find the bus station where our tour was to take off from. If you get a chance look up on a map where Inverness Scotland is located. We were way up there in the Scottish highlands!

On our bus ride for the Jacobite Lochness Tour.

River Ness with the highlands in the background.

Me and Nessie!

Walking to the boat.

Our boat to take us down the River Ness to find the Lochness!

More scenic views

Jason and Me

I was fortunate enough to catch Jason as he saw the Lochness monster swimming through the water. But unfortunately since I caught Jason's reaction I missed seeing the Lochness! He was pretty excited to see it! :)

He obviously couldn't believe it!haha

More of the country side.

Coming up to Urquhart Castle. It's down in the right hand corner.

Jason walking into the castle.

Jason showing us how they used the corn drying kit.

Another view of the castle.

Bird's eye view of the castle with the water behind.

Jason peeking through one of the wall's of the castle.

Heading back to the bottom level.

Not sure what this is that I'm standing on! :) Toilet?

View from the castle.

Another side of the castle.

After the castle we went and visited the Lochness Exhibition, which told the history behind the monster including all the myths, stories, and work people have done into finding the monster.