Day 2 - Lauder

Karen and I went and saw a lot of different places my second day. First before we did anything we stopped and took a picture of the sign for Lauder. It is a Royal Burgh. There are only 8 (or some small number like that) in England. Then we went to Thirlestane and looked at the outside. After Thirlestane we drove to Scott's view. It is a cliff with a really nice view where Sir Walter Scott used to like to go. On the way up we passed a bridge. Here is a picture of the side of it. This red thing is a really old postbox.
Here is the bridge itself:

Here is the sign for the bridge:
Standing on that bridge you could see this bridge:
Here is Scott's view. There is a little stone wall at the top. It was raining a bit but of course I still had to pretend to climb over the wall. Behind me you can see how nice the view was.



This is the statue of William Wallace at Scott's view. Karen and I thought there was another statue further down the path we were on so we kept following it. We walked a rather long way and came to a dead end which was a little disappointing. Still, Scott's view was very nice.

After Scott's view we went to see the two big wollen mills where we order our dance tartan. They are, if you don't know, Dalgliesh and Lochcarron. We got a little lost on the way and stopped at a restaraunt to get directions. It turned out this restaraunt made a selection of wheat-free pasteries! I had the best gingerbread and muffins I have had in a long time.

I really liked the mills. I don't know how I managed to not take any pictures of them. Dalgliesh was tiny (we were not in the actual mill part) but there was so much tartan! Stacks and stacks of bolts. Karen got some tartan there, Dress Yarrow. It is very pretty. It is new too, neither of us had ever seen or heard of it.

We got to Lochcarron at 3pm. The last tour was at 2:30 so we thought we wouldn't get to see it and were disappointed. We were looking around in the store when the last tour returned. It turned out the tourguide remembered Karen! He gave the two of us a private tour and then with a lot of other people's help found Karen the gloves she was looking for. It was very nice and a lot of fun.

For dinner Karen and I went to Eileen and Fraser's. It was very nice. They kindly offered to keep my broken case for me until I got moved into the dorms. It is 49lbs and no longer can be wheeled so having it there has made things much, much easier. I don't think I could have managed it by myself, let alone with the other suitcase and backpack.