Off to the Dungeons...BOO THE CRIMINAL!!!

So that was an interesting start to my morning. Alarm clocks I must say are quite useful...if one only remembers to turn ON the set alarm. I had this big plan to wake up at 9:00, take a nice shower, eat a nice breakfast and write a wee bit of my 2000 word paper due on Monday. NOPE. Woke up at 10:30, no shower, no breakfast and I was out the door in 2 minutes, thus making the group late for our class excursion. The destination; Edinburgh dungeons. I must say, though I almost peed myself about half a dozen times, it was very intriguing and well done. It was dark for the entire tour, so I wasn't allowed to take pictures. In lamens terms, it was a very large haunted house with the history of how criminals were tortured. The first stop was a courtroom like appearance, and this guy dressed like a judge picked random people and accused them of fake crimes. It was mildly entertaining.

Further and further down into the dungeons brought more and more surprises, including 2 rides. I know, right? The first one was a boat ride...in complete darkness. And I mean COMPLETE darkness. Near the end of the ride, some loud mist shot out from the ceiling and scared the blink out of over half of us. Throughout the venturing through the dungeons I said to myself "I'm going to lose my scare reflex after this trip." A little later into the tour and we were then seated into a "morgue" where there was a fake dead body, fake organs and all! Then, the lady turned all the lights off, started screaming and ran out. The lights started flickering and then the seats we were sitting in rocked backwards. Again, I screamed like a 2-year-old. Hey, you sit in a rocking seat in pitch black and not be freaked out! But the scariest came near the very end. We were taken into a room called "The Hangman's Noose." Basically, another ride, only this time we were seated in chairs and had to take all our loose clothing off. In other words, I had to take off my awesome Fedora hat and...my glasses. So not only was it dark but I couldn't see. Before that we had to walk through a mirror maze just to find the bloody room where this "noose" was.

We were raised on a platform and then these screens came on with this creepy-sounding guy started talking to us. Then he said something along the lines of "you all are guilty so now you're going to be hanged." The lights shut off and we DROPPED. Yes, I screamed, and there was photographical evidence of it. No, I did NOT get a picture, good grief it was bloody embarrassing. However I did get a group photo w/ me and my class that I went with from the beginning of the dungeons tour. It's a good photo; wish I had a scanner so I could scan it on here. Lunch was at the Jekyll and Hyde pub, which was about a 15 minute walk away from the dungeons. What was really neat about it was that you had to push this fake book case to go to the toilets. Super cool! We arrived back in Stirling around 6:00 and I've been back in my flat ever since. Just finished watching a really good movie called Driving Lessons. Definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it before! I have posted a quote...well a poem from the main character. It spoke to me and reminds me about life and the time that I've spent and enjoyed here. That's all for now; time to tackle this paper some more, but I have over 600 words written! I can do this. Thanks for reading. Cheers!

"Some mysteries I'll never understand: the way the Earth rotates around the sun, three minutes shorter every day. Or the way the dead are gone. Or putting down the phone or turning a corner. The future: that's another whopper. We can never know what we can never know, except, that whoever you are, and whoever I am, you made it allright to be me."  

Outside of the dungeons

This was the bookcase to access the toilets. WICKED COOL 

Probably the BEST chocolate ice cream I've ever had!!!