Day 9
Oct 23/09
Today we headed off to the National Museum of Scotland. Again free (I love free), it had really cool displays. It sort of doubles as a history museum and a science centre. In the science centre part they have THE Dolly, the first sheep that was cloned from an adult cell! They also have the original Gemini space capsule (or whatever it is). We also learned a little bit about Alexander Graham Bell in the phone section. It was then time to expore the Scottish history side of the museum. Once we were museum'd out we headed to lunch a cute little Italian restaurant in a rather touristy area and then headed back to our car to head out in the direction of Glasgow, our final stopping point that night. Just before we left Edinburgh, we drove by Alexander Graham Bell's home and took some pictures, then we were off. First we had to go see the Falkirk wheel (one of the Geek Atlas items.) It's a type of lock for boats, but it raises boats about 50m! It was kind of cool. It's hard to describe, but when I post pictures, you'll be able to see what I'm talking about. After this it was time to find parking. It was rather tricky finding a parking space this night. Edinburgh to Glasgow is only about 45 min and between the two is mostly bigger town/city so there weren't the typical blue P signs to indicate parking. It probably took us about 2.5 hours of driving to find a spot to park. Somehow we found one. It was in a cute little spot. It was away from the highway which was nice. It was now time for bed to get ready for the next day.
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