Tour and Fairgrounds

Hello everyone
Today we took a bus tour of the city Edinburgh. We saw a huge castle that the royal family stays in when they're in town. Our tour guide was given by a scottish man that was dressed in a kilt. We then traveled to the Royal Highland fairgrounds which was like a huge mall with all the different tents. Later a very soft-spoken man took us down to the barns to see the dairy cows. None of us could really hear him but I did learn that they use a lot of Semex bulls. Such as, September Storm, Talent, and Gibson. I also saw a mostly black Shottle fall calf (which I had never seen before). Then we were told about tomorrows contest. To our surprise we learned that there are only 5 minutes to place and take reasons on the classes as opposed to our 12-20 minutes back home. There are 4 classes 2 of them being reasons. The cows are also numbered differently, A B X Y. Another change is that everyone judges together; College, 4H, and FFA. The top 6 individuals from each species (Dairy, Beef, and Sheep) go on to the finals where you have to judge all species and give reasons and demonstrations on the animals. We have been told that the contest is very chaotic so we really don't know what we are getting into. We learned a lot at the fair like the things under goats neck are call toggles or tassles and that their pizza is different from ours. Laurel also kicked a dog at the fair. We left the fairgrounds for our hotel and a night on our own. We walked through the rain to find somewhere to eat and finally settled on a place that I cant remember the name of. The waiter could not understand Laurel at all for some reason. We have to wake up at 5 tomorrow so I need to go to sleep.

Goodbye

Derek Lease