Days long since past

Well it's been a while but my internet time here is limited and quite expensive. I have however been having a wonderful time in Edinburgh. I spent my 24th birthday here and it was pretty fun. I woke up the morning of the 9th and I went swimming it was a nice long relaxing swim. I just love to swim. I used to do it all the time when I was a kid and it just feels like you're floating over the world on a cloud or something. So I did that then I went to a book store and bought myself a present. They were having a book sale and so I got 2 for 3. I came back to the hostel and I had a nap and was awoken by a new roomate from Spain. We ended up spending the evening together and when he found out it was my birthday he took me for supper. IT was nice we had nachos. Then later in the evening we entered into the pub quiz, much like the one that was on The Office. It was such a fun event. I now see why people love them so much. I was in a group with 6 people. Me and one other Canadian guy, my spanish friend, one girl from Australia and 2 Scottish girls. There was 5 categories with 10 questions in each and whoever gets the most right by the end wins. One of the rounds was Dance so they had a bonus round of Limbo. I went in for my team and won the limbo competition. It was great. So by the end of the game we were tied with one other team at 30 points. They asked us a bonus question and we both failed. Next question and we lost but there were two prizes of equal value so we both won it was just to determine which prize you got. We won a bottle of Vodka. ha ha.
Also this week I went to see the Camera Obscura. It's like a camera in a dark room at the top of this tower and you can spy on the whole city which was really cool. Then you work your way down the tower through all these rooms with optical illusions cooler than most I've seen. It was a laugh. I went and toured around the botanical gardens here and that was just the most amazing and beautiful garden I've ever seen. There were the garden grounds outside then inside was a greenhouse which was so cool. Or literally hot like a tropical rain forrest. :-) I also went to a few other the national art galleries and museums they have here which was pretty cool however a lot of them push evolution which I don't believe in of course. But still pretty cool to see. In one of the art galleries there was a whole floor dedicated to Christianity which was beautiful. There were paintings of John the Baptist and Jesus and many others from like a thousand years ago that were all cracked. There were martyrs and so on. I loved that bit. It's really amazing to see how God has survived through the ages and yet people still deny it. Yesterday I walked the Royal Mile which is a Scottish mile (1 1/8 mile) and at the top is the Edinburgh Castle and at the bottom is the Holyrood Palace. I didn't go into either because it was so expensive. like $50.00 CAD. But walked up the side of a mountain beside the palace and took lots of pics. Ha ah I've had a great time in Scotland. It's so beautiful here I would definately come back again. Well I will write more soon. I am off to France this week so hopefully there will be many more adventures and such.