Harry Potter and Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh

Right, so I meant to write this a while ago but everything with Cory kind of... I took it harder than I could have expected.
Anyway, three weeks ago (12th July), two of my second cousins came over with my great aunt. I decided to take them out for the day. First, we went to the National Museum of Scotland which was great. The kids (ages seven and nine) really enjoyed seeing the animals (stuffed, obviously) and the other things there. After that, we decided to go for something to eat so we went to The Elephant House which is famous for being known as where J. K. Rowling wrote part of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. I think it so anyway. We had some really great food there. I loved it. Then we walked up the road a bit to go get some frozen yoghurt. It was a great day overall. I loved spending time with the girls.
They seemed to like spending time with me too because they ended up staying the entire weekend. Awesome for them, tiring for me...
On Saturday (13th July), we paid a visit to Holyrood Palace after going to Dynamic Earth. That was really good. The girls loved learning about dinosaurs and stuff. If I'm completely honest, I can't remember much about it. That whole day's kind of... I don't know. That weekend was... Yeah...
But I remember loving the palace. Having grown up, wishing I was a princess, going to an actual palace and learning about the history and everything that had happened there hundreds of years ago... Well, it was incredible. The girls and my friend Jane (who had joined us that day) all really enjoyed it. I hadn't been there in about 13 years so it was a great day overall. We had something to eat at Dynamic Earth so we just went home after the palace and I cooked something for us (pasta and mince). Then we watched a Disney film. The night before, we'd watched 'Aladdin' so we ended up watching 'Enchanted'. It was a very happy two days.
I don't need to go into the next day but, yeah... Edinburgh's an amazing city which is something I seem to forget every now and then. I really enjoyed being a tourist in my home-city. I feel like you get to appreciate so many more things by doing that.