Bowhill Estate is the main palace that the Dalkeith family owns. Once again we were faced with the dreaded fact we couldn't take photos (and we really couldn't this time) because the place was overloading with treasures from the past hundreds of years. I really wish I couldn't taken photos because the place was so beautiful. Some rooms had chanel(?) carpets, silk wallpaper, old Maison china, tapestries, paintings and beautiful silver pieces. We did get to take photos of the kitchen though. It was really neat to see all the old pots and utensils. The grounds were huge, and included a small lake. There were also sheep and cows in the fields.
The next place we went to was Melrose Abbey. Most of it was gone but it was really neat. They even had fragments of the old floor there. When the last monk died the place was just left to waste away. Robert the Bruce's heart is buried there, there's a stone marking where it is. We've never had this much time to see places (we're used to getting 15 min to go somewhere and hopping on the bus) but we had almost 2 hours here. We decided to look for 4-leaf clovers. I ruined the game because right after we decided this I looked down and found one in like 2 seconds :P I never get that lucky! We walked around in town and I got an ice cream cone. It was delicious, vanilla and honeycomb. Pete bought a Dandelion and Burdock soda. He wasn't too fond of it and somehow I liked it so the rest was given to me.
Last on the trip we saw Scott's View. Apparently the famous author Sir Walter Scott would go to this spot a lot to look at the view. When he died the funeral procession went through this spot. His horses stopped right where they always would at their master's favorite point of view.
The night was spent watching another movie, having a bit of class time and editing some photos. During class we watched this documentary on 9/11 that was focused on the photographers.
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