Scott's Trip to Scotland: Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

Like I said in my last post about Edinburgh castle, as if the day wasn't spectacular enough, now we had the Tattoo to go to that night!! This was one of the most amazing things. We filled in in the "cue" (line) that were just as long as can be and walking up to the castle from the royal mile with over a thousand other people surrounding you is an experience like no other. And not only did we get the best section in the stadium because it was half price preview night, but it turns out that the ROYAL BOX which holds that nights special dignitary was maybe five feet from us! It was so great. Seeing different military bands and bagpipers as well as special groups like the Royal Scottish bikers that did things like riding backwards standing on their handlebars while fireworks shot out of the back of their bikes, and the Royal Military Acrobatic group were just like nothing I had ever seen before. In addition to the great music and performances many of the groups had really cool projections up on the castle itself, and most has some sort of remember the troops theme to them which were all very well received and very moving! At one point the Royal English Pipers were playing I think Amazing Grace and there was a scrolling collage of videos of soldiers, their families, children, etc, and then all of the sudden military soldiers dressed in full camo and helmets and guns came out and reenacted a scene as if at war.... It was really an amazing experience. Unfortunately, as you will see in the photos because it was preview night the press were allowed to be on the field with the groups, so in some of them they may look a bit out of line, but those are just the press that were all there...getting in the way! haha But WOW what a great show!