Highland Games

We all got our dancing shoes on (figuritively) and jigged over to the highland games friday evening. We were entertained by silly people trying to toss hagus, 30 lb kegs, and other things as far as their strength would allow...we saw men pulling a HUGE ford truck (julia thought they looked like horses because to try, they had to put on a safety harness) apparently, if you were strong enough to pull it home ( ha) you could keep it. (right)

THE BEST PART was the dancing!!!!! i love the highland dancers!!! it was thrilling. i was reminded of Sonya and her fabulous dancing skills as we watched troop after troop come on stage and do their very own little show. excellent. some were so small and cute...a lot were done with broad swords, very cool. i loved it. Julia loved it. dave enjoyed it. samuel slept...and twitched every tim ethe drums got really loud. (dude. the pipes were loud in the dancing room. ) oh yeah. julia would probably say the ice cream came as a close second for the "best parts" of the night.
NExt day: here is my highland dancer.


haha. i love her.