Traveling the Highlands, Scotland to Inverness (April 16th)

I have decided I'm a sucker for ruins and K has found he enjoys natural scenery, so we drove through the Highlands in Scotland, stopped along the way to skip some rocks and enjoy the God created scenes.
The water was unbelievably calm, creating a mirror for the trees and I couldn't help but think of teaching second grade when the kids learned about symmetry. I think it's difficult to tell which was really the top of the photo.
Sure enough there's another castle...honestly, we weren't trying to come here just for the castles. It just somehow ended up that way. We were at the Urquhart Castle near the Loch Ness waters in Inverness which played a key role in the Scottish battle for independence.

After a few hours of driving , the kids by this point were bored out of their minds so we told them the story of the Loch Ness Monster and asked them to keep their eyes peeled so we could catch a million dollar photo of him if he really exists.

They were on the lookout and that bought us another hour to roam the area. At one point J claimed she might have seen something. That's yet to be confirmed.

Can you find us in the picture above?

My kids are becoming quite the expert flag identifiers. Here's the one for Scotland.

Here are the ripples to prove our eldest officially skipped a few rocks while J's eyes were still focused on the water for any sign of the monster!
Guarding the castle was a catapult with the Celtic sign engraved in the wheel.