Sunday, June 21, 2009

The Chippy and Highland Games

Hello All!
Yesterday Sarah and I headed into a little fishing town to go to the UK's top voted Fish and Chips place. I figured I had to try fish and chips from the land of fish and chips. The restaurant was very busy and they people said that was actually a quite day. The fish and chips presentation in the newspaper box was quite cute. I am not a big fish eater so I wasn't too thrilled about the fish and chips but it was good. It was one of Sarah's friends birthday's last night so he was having a birthday party and we headed into Dundee for that. Her friends seemed pretty nice but I felt quite out of the loop as they were all talking about their work they are doing. When it was time for us to head back and catch the last bus, the birthday guy said that it should only take us about 15 minutes to walk to the bus station....well it was talking us longer than that and we ended up literally running across town hoping the bus was still there but were sure it wasn't. Luckily it was still there and we made it home safely.
Today we headed up to Aberdeen for the Highland Games. I found out these were going on before I even came over here and told Sarah that I had to go and she agreed she wanted to see authentic highland games also. Aberdeen is not that close, about an hour and a half by bus, and the buses don't run often there so our time was limited. But let me tell you these games were so cool. They had the heavy weight games where they throw all the heavy stuff to see who wins, they had scottish and irish dancing, they had tug-a-war, track tip competitions, and the thing I thought was the coolest was a bagpipe competition. I could sit and watch them for hours. It was a perfect sunny day for the Highland games and very glad that we went.
I'm not sure what tomorrow entails yet but I look forward to another fun day.
Love
Heather

2 comments:

  1. Hey Heath! Thanks for the updates. Your writing is terrific and I can "hear" you giving us a guided tour, so it's a lot of fun to read them. I am sorry you didn't see Nessie. I was hoping she'd make an appearance. I am glad you got to see the Highland Games ... what a great "real" part of the culture. Sending you tons of love! Aunt Lori

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  2. Hi Heather:

    Wishing I was there with you. I look forward to reading your updates everyday (when you post something!). Love, Mom

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