GSE 5510 Scotland

Heather here - Wow! Can't believe we hadn't posted anything since the 15th! That last week was quite busy!

While we were with the Pitlochry club, they took us to the theater. We saw The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. It was very well done and quite entertaining!

After a whirlwind couple of days in Pitlochry, we headed up to Avimore for the District Conference and the last leg of our trip.

Friday night we attended the dinner and listened to a little bit of history from Mary Queen of Scots, in her own words.

Saturday, Kylee and I made our trip to Loch Ness. We took the train to Inverness and caught a boat for a 3 hour tour on the Loch. It was a beautiful, but chilly, day to be on the Loch. It must have been too cold for Nessie though, we didn't see her at all! The sonar on the boat showed the depth of the Loch, nearly 800 feet in some areas.

Saturday night's formal dinner at the confernce was a lot of fun. The food was great, the company at the table interesting and the music lively (though a bit too loud for the size of the hall!). I got to put into practice some of the Scottish Country Dancing classes I'd taken!

Sunday morning we gave our final presentation to the delegatees. We had quite a large audience - very nerve wracking! But they were all friendly faces and quite a few of them were well known to us already from the clubs we'd visited. We each told a little bit about ourselves and something we'd learned or would take away with us from Scotland. Everyone loved Scott's lament of the midges, and also Karen's Scottish Vocabulary lesson. Who can forget words like dreich or braw?

So now we're home. I've been intending to get this blog done since Tuesday but apparently jet lag has hit me too much! My kitties were certainly glad to see me and they are sticking so close I can barely walk without tripping over one or the other of them. My horse was also glad to see me - until I saddled him up and made him work!

I thought that seeing people drive on the right side of the road, and actually driving again after a month, would seem strange and take some getting used to, but it really hasn't. Seemed perfectly normal to drive on the right! I have forgotten my phone numbers at work and where I put things for safe keeping before I left. Eventually I'm sure I'll get things reorganized!

It's good to be home, but I do miss Scotland already! Especially all the wonderful people we met, the green countryside, cool weather and awesome sights!