Sunday may fifteenth 2011

Sunday may fifteenth 2011
We woke up and left for Lerwick. Lerwick was very cute. It was a small town and you could see the water from practically anywhere you were standing. The hotel we stayed at was adorable and had a thai restaurant in it. The rooms were very nice and it was a nice break from the military hostel we were just in. The hotel owner let me use his phone at 2 pence a minute to call home which is a very good deal. We went to the Shetland museum to learn more. Shetland has a lot of oil money and therefore a very nice museum. The layout of the museum forced you down a path of shetlandic history. The most memorably things were the paintings and the reconstructed face from a skull of a shetlandic woman. The museum was very interesting and also suggested at the belief of some that Shetland is different from Scotland. One of the post cards said "upside-down waterfalls, only in the country of Shetland". This theory and issue is part of the reason why we are in Scotland. After the museum I experienced Thai food for the first time and discovered it is spicy but tolerable, at least what I ordered. We had a relaxing evening and watched some much needed tv.