Oct 17th - Oct 23rd, 2011 Scotland Trip

Mom and I are off to Scotland for 2 weeks to visit Aunt Earla, Uncle Alan and cousins. We flew Iceland Air from Halifax, thru Iceland and landed in Glasgow. David, Rubin, Hannah and Aunt Earla were there to meet us and deliver us to Sanquar after an hour and half trip thru the country side. Rugged hills with the heather all turned to brown and lots of sheep grazing on the hill sides. Roads are narrow and twisty and of course they are driving on the wrong side of the road. Managed to stay awake on Tues and then to bed for a 13 hour sleep. Over the past few days we have walked up to Alan and Ruth's, visited Gillian and David and the kids at home, a couple of visits to the town and just relaxed in their conservatory and enjoyed the view. I went with Catherine on Thurs to drive over to Sarah and Jeff's wedding with a detour to the hairdresser and Deb and David's house. Only managed to get on the wrong road a couple of times:-) Mom drove over with Aunt Earla and Uncle Alan and we met at the Carfraemill Lodge in Lauder where the wedding reception is to be held. Deb and a lot of the kids were in the huge white tent finishing up the decorations. On Friday the wedding ceremony was held at the Baptist church in Musselltown and then to the reception at the Mill. Beautiful meal, cakes, Cehlih and speeches. Everybody had fun dancing and it more like our square dancing at home.Fun, fun. Back to Sanquar on Sat via Deb's home in Edinburgh for another visit with everybody. David's brother Jason, 4 boys and Pricilla were there also. Did stop at the Cotton Patch to "fondle" the fabrics and drapery. What a wonderful store. Sunday morning had a call from Bernie - great to hear his voice.He is off to play golf with Derek and Greg in Moncton. We are now waiting for Deb and David and family to arrive.