Played in my company's 90 year old football tournament called the Ellison Trophy. We played 5-a-side with over 20 teams. Since none of you were there and can't check the results, lets just say my team won the whole thing.
(the nice thing about losing is that you get to grab a pint at the pub, carry it to the sidelines, and watch the rest of the games)Dre and Robyn came the next day, and proceeded to whisk my wife away on a week long trip around Scotland. (I know, I know, this meant I actually had to cook for myself. Shocking right?) Luckily, I got to meet up with them the next weekend and we spent the day at the Braemar Gathering. This was a fantastic highland games event, with all the usual tossing of big heavy objects, the all day tug-of-war competition between Army units (my favorite team was the 52nd division Army ENGINEERS!), highland dancing, bag-pipe band competition, and track & field events. The best was the hill run, where competitors ran several miles up a windy path to the top of a mountain behind the stadium, and then ran (tumbled) straight down. Mental! The Queen even came and sat right across from us!
A week after Dre and Robin arrived, we spent a weekend in Maine at Colin & Ashley's wedding. What an awesome time, it was on Pemiquid point, right next to the lighthouse. Seriously, such a beautiful wedding and a ton of fun. It was just fantastic to see everyone and we had an inedible time (and the guys looked really awesome in their kilts). And even better, Colin and Ash just booked their tickets to Scotland! (For those that don't know Colin grew up in the town in Scotland that we are living in now)
A week after that came the whirlwind trip back home. Birthday celebration lobster cook out (thanks Mom & Dad) , saw nephew Grant who is getting huge!, reunion with the kids at school, first night ever at BHP, birthday celebration with the Dows, home friends get together with Tito and Lara.... and back again. Fairly sick of flying by now.
Then our friend Laura came for a visit cause she just happened to be passing through the area (the area = Europe). We had an awesome time and checked out Edinburgh, the local fare, and my personal favorite part of Scotland, Arran Island. Visited the distillery and some castles, met some Aussie charity bikers... good times.
Tomorrow, the parents arrive and sister comes over a couple days later. I will probably blog about that some time around Thanksgiving.
The plan for today (based on the advice of my barber), drive south past Girvan, turn off the main road and get lost... properly lost. Supposedly beautiful lowland mountains and glens. We will see.
Other than that, Tommy and the Patriots sound like they are doing ok (the other football), which has me quite choffed (pleased?), but both my fantasy teams are absolutely horrible, and MBA recruiting season has begun. So anyone in need of a student who is terrible at fantasy football and is lost in Scotland please give me a job.
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