Pictures can't capture the impressive castle compound, but here's our wonderfully entertaining and informative Scottish guide:
We also climbed the Wallace monument, a memorial to their great independence fighter for Scottish freedom in the early 1300's (think Mel Gibson ... Braveheart.... go out and rent it now). E-mail Phil for an exact count of the number of impossibly narrow stone steps to the top of this 5 story structure. He will also give you a count of the number of steps coming down. 
Here's the town below from the heights of the Wallace Monument:
We also drove to Falkirk and took a boat through the Falkirk Wheel. It's a giant contraption that replaced 8 locks on the river canal between Edinburgh and Glasgow in 2002. It lifts not just the river boat, but the entire slough of water the boat is in ... I mean, lifts it in a giant arc high above, and you're sitting in a boat in water with nothing but sky and horizon in front of you, hundreds of feet in the air. At the same time a descending boat is being arced below you. Really weird. No pictures of this adventure, but once again we had a delightful Scottish guide who told stories we couldn't understand, and mimicked the Queen of England pretty snarkily.
Tomorrow to Edingburgh.
