This weekend has been full of great events. As the title gives away I went to my first ceilidh on Friday. A ceilidh is a scottish dance that is very similar to line square dancing. Mary and I went together along with many of her friends. There was a live band that consisted of an electric guitar, fiddle and drum kit and of course all of the guys had kilts on! There was one young guy who taught each dance to us and would then walk us through the steps as we danced to the music. After much twirling, jumping, kicking and shouting we would have to break for water every two songs. It was so much fun filled with lots of laughter. 
¬†On Sunday I traveled to Glasgow taking my first train ride of the trip towards the west coast of Scotland . We passed hundreds of sheep, hilly pastures and lots of green. We passed under the city and then arrived in this a beautiful train station in the heart of Glasgow. It is home to a beautiful museum, good food and lots and lots of shopping. The museum had everything from mummies, to stuffed lions, and tigers and bears (Oh my!), to a life size WWII British fighter plane hanging from the ceiling to paintings from Monet and Van Gogh. We spent many hours there until we all were starving and went for lunch where I finally had my first fish and chips of the trip! Lastly we enjoyed much of the shopping that the city had to offer including a visit to the local Apple Mac store. If you know me well, you know I was like a kid in a candy shop having to touch everything there. I was able to play with the new MacBook Air which is the world’s thinest notebook. It was so neat! Eventually we all crashed and decided to take the train back around 1800 at which time I slept the entire way. Mind you I was made to meet up with my friends by 0830 at the train station to leave. A long day but full of fun and adventure!¬†
Next weekend I will be traveling to St. Andrews… finally! Thank you to all of my loyal readers. I hope you have been enjoying the blog and pictures thus far. Its hard to believe I am going into my fourth week here! Time is flying by. The best part is that I am enjoying every day here. I’ve been finding already, that it is fun for me to read some of my first posts to this blog and to think about how much I have done in such little time.¬†As the Scots say… Cheers! ¬†
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