Everyone Sounds Funny (and now we do too): Scotland

For our celebration of American Thanksgiving, Z took a couple of days off of work. Thanksgiving is, for obvious reasons, not observed here in England. We made our own holiday and went on a roadtrip through Scotland. Stopping first in Edinburgh, then driving further north to Loch Ness, and then completing the visit back through Edinburgh on our way home.

Edinburgh, Scotland

We stayed at an "apart-hotel" which just sounds odd to me. But it just means apartment-like hotel rooms, i.e. kitchen and living room in addition to the sleeping rooms. We have found this is the ideal way to travel with kiddo in tow. Kitchen amenities provide us with a place to inexpensively prepare meals. And the seperate sleeping quarters from the television/living space is most helpful when putting a pre-schooler to bed a few hours before Z and I are ready to call it a night ourselves. Sharing a single room while travelling usually results in a kiddo who can't fall asleep early enough and a mom and dad hanging out in the early evening dark, pretending to be asleep in the hopes that the little person will give up trying to talk/play/read stories.

Living Room in Apart-Hotel

The only major drawback to our apart-hotel room were the mattresses. They were of the "I'm-so-tired-but-can't-sleep-because-the-bed-is-too-uncomfortable" variety. I am tempted to bring our pump up air mattress along on the next road trip to circumvent said extreme discomfort.