Edinburgh

I'm getting lazy about this blog thing.
Last weekend, we went to Edinburgh. Took two much needed days off of work and then trained it to Scotland. A girl that Frank used to work with, Ericha, came with us, as did her husband, John. They are a few years older than us and act like they are 50 (they took naps every day) but it was nice to have some different company.
The hostel we stayed in was amazing. Literally, look out the window and there's the castle. Actually, everything in Edinburgh looks like it could be a castle. We visited the museum (where I crossed off a few more 'must see before you die' paintings), explored the castle (£12 that really wasn't worth it--the crown jewels are about as impressive as my jewelry collection), and then took a day trip up to Loch Ness. None of us saw the monster, but we decided that the countryside was beautiful. Oh! And I went on a hike! There's a volcano in the middle of Edinburgh called Arthur's Seat that we diced to hike to the very top of. I took pictures of myself at the top so that people would believe that I spent time in nature. Amazingly, I didn't even whine much. What was my motivation? Frank promised to write me an epic song if I climbed to the top with them. I've yet to hear it performed, but Joe says its quite good. We all decided that Scotland was gorgeous and we would love to go back sometime.
Now I'm back in London, back to disliking my job. Today we finalized some of our Europe trip plans and as of now, our schedule is as follows:
April 2-4: Aix-en-Provence, France
April 5-6: Switzerland (most likely, Geneva)
April 7-8: Cologne, Germany (Frank has a friend there who we will meet up with)
April 9-13: Paris (Frank's aunts will be in Paris at that time, too)
April 14-15: Amsterdam (My old roommate lives there)
April 16-18: Berlin
April 19-20: Prague
April 21-22: Budapest
April 23-24: Vienna
April 25-27: Venice
April 28-29: Verona
April 30-May 2: Florence
May 3: Pisa
May 4-6: Rome
May 7: Amalfi
May 8: travel day to get to Greece
May 9-10: Corfu
May 11-14: Athens
May 15: back to London
May 16: back to Seattle!

I'm excited about all of the traveling I'll be doing, a little nervous about all of the money I'll be spending, and kinda sad to be leaving a city that I have a love-hate relationship with. I'm sure I'll cry when I leave, but then, I cry at everything.
Anyone know any amazing things to do in any of those places?
Also, two discoveries: one of the guys who lives with us used to be the voice of the bad guy in Power Rangers. I'm living with a celebrity. I'm also living with a middle aged crazy man who just moved in and has long conversations on the public phone that should really be done in private. Frank and I think he was just left by his wife.
This weekend I'm off to Ireland!
I'm too lazy to upload pictures onto the internet, so I'll have to have a big picture party when I get back to the US of A.