On-line for 24 hours -- whoopee!

I wish we were online every night so I could keep up with our adventures, but we are actually rarely online (not to mention pretty busy!)...

Here's some pix from The Gathering 2009 in Edinburgh. It is the largest gathering of the clans since the tragic battle at Culloden. The parade up the Royal Mile was amazing -- clan after clan after clan for an hour and a half, with pipers and drummers sprinkled throughout -- wow!

I wore a kilt today - purples and blues - hey, I like those colors! (We haven't downloaded the pictures yet.) The rain and sun continue to take turns -- on Friday the rain dominated, on Saturday, we had lots of sun, and then today we sometimes got sprinkled on, but nothing drastic.

We have walked all over local Edinburgh -- it's only 1.5 miles to the Queen's Castle where the event was held (Holyrood Park). The Edinburgh Castle is right up the hill from us - maybe a five minute walk. The architecture is overwhelming and we have taken hundreds of pictures -- two of flowers....these are in Scotland near the moors...We leave for Ireland on Tuesday via ferry out of Stranraer to Belfast, then on up to the northern coast to see the Giant's Causeway. We will be all over the island until next Monday when we will see Riverdance in Dublin (wow!) then hop on the 2am ferry to ride over to Wales and hopefully sleep for the three-plus hour trip! :)

Oh, did I tell you all that we walked over 600 stairs at the Salisbury Cathedral and over 400 at the York Minster? Stairs, stairs, stairs, and more stairs. At the castles and palaces, too. My knees are getting really strong!!!

Enough for now....more, much more, later!