Reality:
Partly cloudy AM, mostly gorgeous PM
05:00 wake up
07:30 get up
08:00 breakfast: corn flakes, toast, egg, sausage
08:35 post office, buy stamps
08:50 queue for other post office
09:00 buy more souvenirs at post office shop
09:05 enter Bank of Scotland, get 10 £2 coins for £20
09:10 tourist info centre: buy 2 tickets for Loch Ness via Caledonian Canal cruise.
09:45 leave tourist info centre in bus to go to boat
10:00 get on boat for 3.5 hour tour, a 3.5 hour tour

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10:05 the weather started getting rough, put on windbreaker
    stood on upper deck bow all the way to Urquhart Castle

11:45 reach Urquhart Castle, take pictures from upper deck, go to enclosed lower deck

13:30 return via Caledonian Canal to whence we started.
13:35 walk back to room via Cemetery
14:20 leave room in search of Arches
14:35 #3 large with Sprite £3.50
14:50 buy 2 tickets for 1900-2130 bus tour of Loch Ness
14:55 Tescos: steak flavoured chips and jaffa cakes
15:00 return to room
17:20 leave for Dickens Restaurant
17:28 queue for Dickens Restaurant
17:30 enter Dickens Restaurant
18:10 leave Dickens Restaurant after enjoying 2 lemonades, lemon chicken and white rice £25 for two
18:15 call Gregory from Inverness Castle to wish him a happy 12th
18:20 wander around Inverness Castle grounds

18:40 board evening Loch Ness tour bus

19:30 witness Loch Ness 2000 which wasn't nearly as lame as I feared

20:30 photograph Urquhart Castle from the dry side

20:55 photograph Mom at shore of Loch Ness

20:56 photographed by Mom holding photo of self at shore of Loch Ness at shore of Loch Ness

21:30 return to room
    finish "Summer of the dragon" by Elizabeth Peters
    begin "Seeing a large cat" by Elizabeth Peters