We're baaack! Here's Glasgow . . .

Well, we're back from our Christmas holiday in Scotland.  It was a fantastic trip, and we had absolutely lovely weather.  I'm planning on posting a day by day, so expect some decent traffic here in the next few days.  Of course, that depends on how easily I can get to my photos, what with cleaning up here after Christmas and corralling the kids with their new toys : )

Our first day was mostly airport time.  We were delayed by thick fog out of Frankfurt-Hahn by almost two hours, so that got us into Edinburgh at about two or three in the afternoon.  Just enough time for us to get our rental (MUCH easier getting used to driving on the opposite side of the car and road this time, though mistakes were made).  More interesting was learning to shift with my left hand!  Anyways, we didn't have any time to explore Edinburgh as it gets DARK by 4 pm.  So we headed out to our cottage in the countryside of Scotland south and east of Edinburgh along the coast.

The shot here is of the church that sat adjacent to the cottage (literally a one minute walk or less).  It is where we spent Christmas morning for our Christmas service with the other villagers.  You can see the sheep on the hillside just behind the church.

That first day (21st) we decided to drive into Glasgow.  Mostly because we wanted to see the open air market (The Barras).  This turned out to be harder to find than we anticipated it, but we found it.  We didn't spend much time there, other than buying me new gloves, which came in quite handy on this trip.  After that we found some lunch, then made our way to the House for an Art Lover.  They had this great playground that some of the resident Artists must have made, as some of the play equipment had elements of sculptures to them.  Here is Leah enjoying her ride on the swing.

Here is Ian on one of the slides.  It looked like beaten copper or bronze in the shape of a ladybug - Ian only cared that it was fun to slide down.

The last shot here is of Catherine, Ian, and Leah right before we went inside.  It was actually a kid-friendly museum of sorts - with everyone enjoying their shot at playing the piano in one of the rooms.

That's it for this post.  Look for more to come . . .