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Today was epic. Yesterday or the day before we found this tour company that goes to the SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS that’s still kind of just starting. In Scottish, that means it’s free (well, you pay what you want). And it was awesome.

The company is called the Hairy Coo. Coo is cow in Scottish. Hairy coos are these wonderful cows that are gingery and hair and have giant horns. They are quite epic. As was our bus because it was orange and had horns and little fringe on the top. It also had a sign on the back of it saying “honk if you’re horny” (much to the delight of the garbage man)

This tour involved us riding through the Scottish country side to visit many a sights that we (who are under 25 and cannot rent a car) would have never seen.

The first stop was the Falkirk Wheel. Many years ago Europe was obsessed with canals, so Scotland jumped on the band wagon, only with slightly less thought. One engineer started from one end and the other from the other direction and attempted to meet in the middle. Failing to discuss at what height they would be meeting. Long story short they were WAY OFF and built a horrible loch system that was only recently replaced by the epic wheel/boat lift extravaganza.

Hopping back on the bus, we went to a little Scottish town. Luckily for us there was some dog thing going on, the main event being herding. But instead of herding sheep like normal people would they were herding ducks. Let’s just say it’s not very efficient. Highlight of the stop: DUCK RACING. It really doesn’t get any better, unless the man calling the race happens to be Scottish. And the person who bet on the winning duck gets 5 quid. Epic.

On this adventure we saw the William Wallace monument, old bridges, new bridges, we went off-roading in Scotland’s first national park. We visited a beautiful lake called Loch Drunkie because alcohol smugglers used to sink their whisky in the loch to hide it, they used to say that you could go swimming in the lake and get drunk because there was so much alcohol. I just watched Matt skip rocks much to the amazement of the weird American students on the tour.

Seeing the Hairy coos was amazing. We even saw little baby ones. What joy.

Epicness of all Epicness was going to Doune Castle. One would think by now ANOTHER castle wouldn’t impress us. But this was awesome. No, it didn’t look that cool, or house a gangsta kind or queen. No, no. This is where Monty Python and the Holy Grail was shot. Every single scene that involved a castle was this castle. Good times were had by all, with coconuts in hand.