York!

So I've been offline for a couple of days becuase we could not connnect to the internet at the dorms that we were staying at in York. We don't have great internet connection in Scotland I am now sitting at a cafe using WIFI pretty far away from the dorms. Hopefully though in the next couple of days we will be able to find somewhere else closer to the dorms with internet access.

The past couple of days have been alot of fun. When we went to York yesterday we spent most of the time in the York Minster this AMAZING church right in the center or York. We toured the whole church (tower, catacombs, and main level). The views from the top of the church were priceless you could see the entire city. You only had to climb up 275 stairs in a VERY small spiral staircase. It was so small that they had to time when everyone went up and down becuase there wasn't enough room for you to pass anyone on the stairs! We then went down into the catacombs of the church where they found the remains of the foundation of the church from the time of the ROMANS! There was a base of a column that was from the 4th century. I still find it hard to wrap my head around the concept of how old these remains really were. The rest of the the church was fantastic as well, amazing stained glass and floors.

Today we left York and traveled to Edinburgh!! It was a long windy trip through the English countryside but it was also very beautiful! I am very glad to be moved into the flat since we will be here for almost 30 days without having to move at all!! We haven't really done a whole lot except for unpacking and finding somewhere to use the internet since we cannot connect to it in the dorms. I will try to up date as often as I can with pictures and so forth! Tomorrow we are taking our pictures for our miliatry id badges that will get us on and off of the Redford Calvary Barracks and in and out of the Edinburgh castle..yes I said castle, I'm SO excited!