Loch ness monster!

I took a bus up to Inverness to go loch ness monster hunting!! It was a really cute little city with not a whole lot to do. I went to a pub for dinner and needed up meeting some people that were from London but were up here working for a week. We ended up doing a little pub crawl of our own. I of course ended up ninja-ing off and made it back to my hostel. I guess I still need a leash when I go out drinking. My friends at ecu would turn around and I would just be gone.

The next day I took a boat cruise on the loch and saw urquhart castle and tried to find Nessie. All I found were ducks. I love the pubs here! They have such good food and there's always a band that's playing Scottish music. I had a fun night listening to music but went home early since I needed to do laundry.

I wanted another chance at finding Nessie so I booked another tour that took me to the castle and to the loch ness monster museum. I had so much fun running around the castle and exploring it. There isn't a whole lot of it left mostly just crumbling walls. You can still go up in the tower which gives you an awesome view of the loch. I wish I could dive in there!! Something about there's too much peat in the water so it makes the visibility terrible.

After running all over the castle we took a bus to the loch ness monster museum. You walk through these different rooms and they show you about how st columbo came there to convert people and said that he drove away a sea beast. That's the first recorded account of Nessie. You get to see different peoples accounts of seeing Nessie and the scientific things they have tried to do to find her. I'm sure there is nothing in there but still it's fun to believe in. It's like Santa. I got our bus driver to tell us some of the stories he grew up hearing.

They said that Nessie was a shape shifter and her favorite was a beautiful horse. People that didn't know would try to go up and pet her but she would grab them and drag them to the bottom of the loch and eat them. He also said that strangely there is a horse breeding place that has been known for their beautiful horses . . . So I'm sure there's no way that the owners of that place would have started that story to keep people from trying to capture pretty horses beside the loch!