The Highlands

It is with great pleasure that I write this blog. Lately, life has been filled with bus rides, Latin, rain, and reading - and not a whole lot more. Intermixed in all of it has been hanging out with a lot of good people - but between my stresses as well as Kelli's stress of looking for a job and studying for her board exams, we both needed a day away. Jim and Agnes to the rescue.

Late Friday night the Wilson's, who we are staying with, asked us if we would like to go to the highlands for the day on Saturday. After thinking about diving into the books for the day again we both decided that we needed to go. We woke up that morning to a thick rain - and I mean thick. We went out regardless, following the Scottish axiom that if you don't like the weather wait 5 minutes - and it proved to be true. Once we had left the cities behind the sun came out and it turned out being a beautiful day. We stopped for lunch and tea at a little place in a small town called Aboyne (see picture of Jim holding the mug below). The food was great - even though their mugs a little sticky!

After that we went to Ballater, which may or may not be spelled right, which is near Balmoral Castle - the place where the royals make frequent summer trips. The little town was beautiful, with a stone bridge going over the Dee River, and an old stone church in the middle. We knew that the pictures wouldn't do justice, but we decided to put a bunch up from the car. Remember that these are from a moving car, many of them were taken by me just holding the camera in an arbitrary direction and pressing the button.


















All in all, we had a pretty awesome day. It was great to get out and see the highlands a little, and even better not to do any reading! I hope you enjoy the pics!!!