Oh hello there. To start, I found THIS gem sitting near a dumpster in our neighborhood and took a picture thinking, "oh that will be mine on our way back from dinner!" And I would have done it too, but someone already claimed this slightly soiled masterpiece and I regret that I did not hide it when I first found it. REGRETS.
Speaking of that dinner - we had my birthday dinner at Bubble Dogs - which is a restaurant that serves hot dogs and champagne. NOM NOM NOM. It was glorious.
Anywho - we've been traveling again! This time we did a whirlwind trip to Scotland with the Shmoo's and Tony and it was awesome. We took the train to Edinburgh to meet up with everyone and then our fabulous driver, Charlie, took us from there to Isle of Skye, Highlander castle, Inverness, and back to Edinburgh by way of scotch and Scottish beer drinking. Charlie was an awesome guide and really warmed up to us - even agreeing to an extra day of taking us around, showing us his wife's knitting (she's really good) and sending Jefferson a text to thank us for the fun trip. What a great guy!
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| Edrador Distillery Tour! |
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| Tony & The Shmoos |
We walked up the William Wallace monument in Stirling, Scotland (this was a lot of steps and I didn't like that part one bit), which also happened to be a Pokemon Go "Gym" - for those not familiar it's a place where you can battle your Pokemon against other people's. Jefferson and I took the Gym over and then some little kid at the top of the monument told us that he was going to battle us and NOT take it easy on me. Here's a picture of him being a sore loser in the background and us being victorious (but in the end, he won - darnit).
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| See that little kid in the corner? |
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| Bernard makes an appearance. |
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| CHEESE! and Charlie |
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| Birthday dranks. |
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| Me + Scottish hairy cows! |
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| The gang outside our Edinburgh hotel. |
After Scotland we flew over to Helsinki for the weekend with the Wild's. It was a cool little city but very, very expensive. Stupid expensive. We walked all over the city - saw lots of markets, shops, famous buildings - but one of the coolest parts was visiting the botanical garden. Who knew I was even into that? Well I was this time and the lily pads were awesome looking:
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| Super cool lily pads. |
Per usual we tried some Mexican food whilst in another country and let me tell you that Finland does NOT rank high on the "tastes good/decent" scale. Shudder. Fear not, friends - Jefferson still makes me a vat of beans with all the right spices (brought from the US) - so I am doing just fine. Great even.
