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Inverness and Heading to Dunfermline

We woke up early again, it’s so hard to sleep when the sun comes up so early. We had to check out of the house today so we cleaned up the place and ate as much leftovers as we could. Once we were packed up we headed for Inverness.

We made it to Inverness around 10 am and we stopped in at Leakey’s Bookstore. This was a place Jared found and wanted to check out. It was a pretty cool bookstore. Afterwards we walked around the river area and took some pictures. The town of Inverness looked very cool. We went to the oldest house in Inverness, the Abertarff House. I bought some shortbread cookies here. When I brought out my credit card to pay, the man told me hoped it would work. I asked him why and he said there was some sort of security thing that happened at Microsoft that shut down a lot of credit cards, computer systems, and airlines. My card went through, but I immediately checked the news and learned something had happened. Now I’m thinking about our flight tomorrow. 

Next, we checked out a market. It was pretty cool. It started in an alley and right outside there was this very cool looking dive bar. Don and I decided that we should get a shot there with my dad before leaving. We had lunch at a restaurant called Mustard Seed. This place was actually recommended by the man who helped us at the Arnold Clark Car Rental place when we had a damaged tire. The restaurant was very good. Most people ordered the meatloaf. Lucas had fish and chips.

Don, my dad, and I managed to get that whisky shot at the dive bar before our drive to Dunfermline. We had booked rooms at the Holiday Inn in Dunfermline because it’s only a 20 minute drive to the airport. I drove and it went well. Checking into the Holiday Inn was interesting because their computer systems were down due the Microsoft outage thing. Luckily, we had our reservation email and we had called the day before to confirm one of the rooms had a pack and play for Adeline. Our check in went pretty smooth. The Holiday Inn was nice, but the rooms were very small. It is purely a place to stay to get to the airport easily.

I tried to check in for our flight tomorrow on United’s app but it was not working. I was starting to get worried for our flight tomorrow. We decided to walk to a restaurant called Elizabethan for our last night in Scotland. The restaurant was good. We all ordered a variety of things: fish and chips, steak pies, curry, gyros, and mac and cheese. Before bed I was finally able to check in to our flight, hoping for the best tomorrow.