Starting the day off right with a visit to Dalwhinnie Scotch Whisky Distillery, what better way to start off your trip to the Scottish Highlands than with a glass of Scotch for breakfast?
Then it was on to the sheep dog demonstration:
Can you get your dogs to lay in a row like this, using only differently pitched and rhythmic whistles? I can barely get my dogs to sit.
The row of black dots are the dogs, and then another dog herded the sheep between each opening of dogs.
Bucket'o'puppies...
He brought all the puppies out in this bucket, they didn't seem to mind.
They were so little their eyes still hadn't opened! They just wanted to cuddle!
...Don't worry Mom, I know, no more dogs.
Monument at Culloden Battlefield. The final battle in the war of Scottish succession. Basically not enough Highlanders vs better prepared English = massacre.
England won, banned highland culture, killed a bunch of folks.
Loch Ness/ Urquhart Castle.
Preparing our attack
I've got to give it to them, these people knew how to build a lake house.
Posing with Nessie, we actually got him to smile, he's usually a bit camera shy =)
I TOLD you he was wearing a kilt.
Glen Coe,
one of the most beautiful places in Scotland,
and the location of one of the most brutal and dishonorable massacres in history.
A few more pretty pictures.
