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BUNLOIT, SCOTLAND
October 20-23, 2003

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Oct 22, 2003
From the castle we headed down to the dock next to it to search for Nessie some more (notice Mackenzie has her legs crossed, she didn't want them dangling too close to the water (Jaws).

And more searching...

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On the banks of the Loch where most sightings of Nessie have been reported and still no sign of her...


pic picOct 23, 2003 - We left the cute farmhouse to fly to London for our last few days (we're doing our planes, trains and automobile trip). Group photos outside the house, we got cold waiting for the old guy!

LONDON, ENGLAND
October 23-26, 2003



pic picOct 23-24 - We got into London in the afternoon, checked into our cute little Harlingford Hotel (we've stayed there each time). They have re-decorated since we were here last which means they slapped some new paint up, changed the color of the bedspreads and curtains and tossed some new throw pillows on the bed and charge a little more. We saw the play Mamma Mia that night at the Prince Edward Theater and it was really good, it's a musical with Abba songs (I didn't know that I knew that many Abba songs).

The next day we headed to the Royal British Museum.

picThe Museum is HUGE! You could spend days there and not see it all. Mackenzie is studying Mesopotamia in her Ancient Civilizations class so we went to that area and the Egypt area with the mummies and stuff. Then we headed down to see the Rosetta Stone (look closely at the left side of the stone, you can see Mackenzie in the reflection)!

The Rosetta Stone was found in July 1799 in the small Egyptian village Rosette (Raschid), which is located in the western delta of the Nile. It was carved with an inscription in three different scripts: Egyptian hieroglyphs at the top, demotic script (a late cursive form of hieroglyphs) in the middle, and Greek at the bottom. The translation of the Greek passage revealed that the inscription was a royal edict issued on March 27, 196 BC. The decree recorded the benefits conferred on Egypt by the 13-year-old pharaoh Ptolemy V Epiphanes at the time of his coronation. The Greek inscription was a translation of the upper two Egyptian passages and thus provided the key to deciphering ancient hieroglyphs.

Someplace special coming...