Two updates in a week! Holy update batman.

A few fun things happened on the weekend so I thought I would do a quick update. My picture site is now uploaded (and includes photos from this week) but I'm trying to figure out if I can post the website without inviting everyone to share it. Kodak is confusing.

On Saturday the boys and I took a day trip to Stirling. We were hit with a stroke of lovely Scottish weather (which generally speaking is an oxymoron). As soon as we walked off the train the sun came out. Marvelous. Stirling is quite a pretty town despite it's high population of chavs (Brits who wear track pants all the time with the stripe down them even when they're not playing sports, have really bad haircuts, and walk around with beer cans at 10 am in the morning). We saw the old Stirling bridge, the place where Wallace defeated (one of the few Scot victories) the English.

Then we went to the William Wallace monument. The statue down below the monument looks quite like Mel Gibson and apparently there was quite a community dilemma over this. The monument is up on the top of the hill and may have been exciting inside but we were all too poor to go in and see it. Still neat to see though.

More hill climbing to the Stirling Castle. This is the view from uptop. You can see the Wallace monument off to the right. Stirling Castle was also nice to see but again even more expensive to get into. We tried to walk right in and got yelled at by a security guard. Jesse and Rob then proceeded to try and determine how to climb in up the back of the castle. I told them that if hundreds of enemies of Scotland in the past couldn't get infiltrate - they probably wouldn't be able to figure it out. Turns out I was right.

We walked around the rest of Stirling for the afternoon and it was quaint but nothing too exciting. Got home just in time for the rain to start again.

Last Friday night I got all dressed up and went to a classy Scottish play in a classy theatre that had red velvet everywhere. It was good fun. However, I could barely understand what was being said because half of the actors had really thick Scottish accents. 10 minutes in my friend looks over at me, laughs, and asks 'can you understand a word of this? I'm Scottish and I can barely understand myself'. After a while I figured it out though.

Hockey game last night. Edinburgh actually won. Woot!