wow how the time has flown!

<-Edinburgh castle

palace

<- hairy cow

highlands

lockness

more highlands

above are a bunch of pictures of my time in edinburgh with my family last weekend... there are so many more i want to post i had such a good time! i loved seeing my family and i really liked edinburgh! i have more pictures of london from this past weekend i will post later as well!

so in edinburgh my family was there for part of the big arts festival..for the jazz festival... the first day i met my family after work on friday for dinner at this trendy restaurant with great food! after we went to our first gig... and then to another pub after which had music and dancing... the next day we took a 12 hour bus ride to the highlands of scotland and lockness- soo beautiful! it was pretty rainy though but as our tour guide told us it's liquid sunshine! he was the most hysterical tour guide - a true scotsman! he told us some great stories about scottish history! although the group we were with on the bus wasn't too fun..the next day we saw edinburgh castle and the gardens.. both were soo beautiful as well .. and we also went to go see a palace... at night we went to another amazing restaurant and i tried hagas for the first time! although i don't know if it really counts because it was inside this mushrum sauce for steak... and we went to another gig.... the next morning i woke up really early to go back to st.andrews.. on tuesday my family came to st.andrews to visit on the most beautiful day yet! i was soo happy! during my lunch break i showed them around a bit...

last week i was doing experiments on my own because my advisor was at another conference... i was able to set up and make recordings on my own! i now kind of have my own little project testing how ouabain affects skin impulse... i did the same experiment a few times with tadpoles at two different stages in developent... i haven't seen any chance in the length of the skin impulse or the amplitude but i am continuing to do that this week..

in london this past weekend we did lots of things as well! my favorites were parliment.. it was so cool to see how the english government works and it was amazing how beautiful the building was! there was also such a vast difference between how the building was decorated for the two houses, house of commons and the house of lords... i also loved the play we got to see we will rock you which included all of queens music... we had really great seats... and windsor castle... edinburgh and windsor castle are probably my favorites.. i have been to way too many castles at this point haha! i liked winsor alot because it isn't just ruins but is an actual castle that people still live in and is fully decorated... i enjoyed some really nice meals in london as well!

looking forward to going to greece this week! and then going back to atlanta next weekend - so scary! time really has flown by! haven't even begun to think about school!