During the day we visited Rossyln Chapel and the Scottish National Gallery on Princess Street. Not much in the way of music happening during the day, but the scenery was beautiful at Rosslyn. Since the last time we had been there, they added the new welcome center and cafe with a patio overlooking the beautiful hills
During this visit, we had a chance to walk down to the ruins of the Castle just down the road. We didn't even know they existed last night. It was beautiful out this day and we got some nice senior pictures over the valley.
There was a care takers home over looking this scene. Sounds like a hard life.
No photos were allowed in the Scottish National Gallery, but I did get yelled at for drinking water in the Scottish exhibit. We were able to see works from Robert Burns (who I thought was just a writer).
Finally, in the evening we get to see the Military Tattoo (and all sit together, which for 20 of us is pretty hard to do). The Military Tattoo is never not good, but I felt that they really stepped up their game this year. I was continually surprised by the performances, really impressed with the Australians this year incorporating some ACDC, I can dig it.
Pay particular attention the guy in the lower right hand corner. He was gettin really into it. Pretend like you can't hear my commentary in the background.
My favorite Tattoo performance came from the Swiss drummers. They really turned it out with the LED lights on the drums. It was very cool to watch and there's somethin about a snare drum that just gets you pumped.
Of course it wouldn't be the Tattoo without the traditional Scottish dancers, Bagpipers and the Lone Piper.
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