Monday, October 2 – Brandi Green

We caught the bus into town to visit Greyfriars Kirk. We saw the famous Greyfriars Bobby statue. Before you ask … yes, I did touch the nose, and yes I know you’re not supposed to. Hear me out though, it was just a light tap and I’m trying to cancel out some potential bad juju I got from touching a standing stone at Kilmartin. 

We walked around the cemetery looking at the old stones, admiring the changing leaves, and trying to sneak a picture of George Heriot’s School, the school that inspired Hogwarts. Another rule broken … Vacation Mom must be a bad influence on me.

After leaving Greyfriars, we wandered through Old Town and found Victoria Street, the street that Diagon Alley is based on. You are correctly sensing a Harry Potter theme here, I quite enjoyed the books. After a cup of hot chocolate at a cafe on Diagon Alley, these muggles headed back to bus and towards home.

“It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” ― Albus Dumbledore