Aug 9 - ARRAN

Another day of frequent traveling to get to the destination. The ride to the ferry alone was just about 2 hours, I put on some more nap time music and listened to instrumental covers of popular songs by Maxence Cyrin (the video is on the creepy side, but the music is great an cover of "Where Is My Mind" by the Pixies). By the time I got through that album, we were only halfway to the ferry, so I put on some Birdie. She also has a few covers on her album, in particular her cover of James Taylor's Fire and Rain. By the time I got through the Birdie album, it was time to board the ferry. I don't remember much apart from the sound of the turbines on the ferry because as soon as we sat down, I was Out Cold. I know Katie was too because Kerry so kindly took a video of her snoring with her mouth hanging open, good friend. 

When we finally got to Arran, we went to the distillery for a minute so we could all purchase some Arran Gold. We were able to drive around the island for a little bit, and see some of the sights of the Highlands, and smack our heads off the roof of the bus on that tell tale bump

Katie in front of the distillery while we wait for everyone else to buy their booze of choice to smuggle back to the states!

While driving around the island, we stop at Lochranza castle ruins right on the water (well when it's high tide)

 

After Dr. Thompson sees that Jake scaled the wall to take some pictures, he gets up there himself to see the view

...but who's really going to kick us out for breaking the rules in an abandoned castle

the ferry was running late, so we all kind of just lounged anywhere we could find some room and took in the sun. When we were finally on the ferry and moving, some seagulls were flying in the draft from the ferry boat, they were a little hard to snap a picture of - they kept flying off every time we put a lens up like they knew what we were doing.

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