We’ve had a busy week. Barry and Lisa visited. My birthday was monday. We celebrated Thanksgiving Thursday (Robin made really good stuffing.) Friday it snowed and we visited Edinburgh. I did research at the National Library of Scotland while Robin and Keelyn did some Christmas Shopping and rode a Ferris Wheel. We went to the Church’s St. Andrew’s Day Ceilidh when we got back Friday night. We stayed in today (Saturday) to rest up and get ready for Robin and Keelyn to fly home for a couple of weeks.

Couldn’t fit these in the last post:

It has been a busy weekend. Friday night we did origami at at the International Club at Wellington Church. We mentioned Thanksgiving and asked if we could get Sweet Potatoes, Sunday Morning Fumi brought us a bag of Sweet Potatoes! We’re ready for Thanksgiving.
Saturday we went with the University International Student’s group to Helensburgh’s Gogglebox play area then to Loch Lomond National Park. Fun…but long day. Sunday I had an eye appointment so we went to St. Enoch Centre after church. Keelyn visited Santa Claus in Debenham’s Department Store. There was an open aire German Christmas Market so we did some Christmas shopping and ate sausage before returning home.
Keelyn and Robin went over to the University Chapel for a St. Martin’s Day Lantern Festival. St. Martin’s was the 11th.

We stayed in this past weekend. Good day to hang around the house. I’ve bought a copy of the Lion the Witch and the Wadrobe to read to Keelyn, who is enjoying it very much. Since I didn’t get good pics of the fireworks, I’m posting some from the Glasgow West End website taken by Jim Byrne. He’s got some real nice pictures of our neighbourhood. Sunday was Remeberance Sunday and we were invited to Lunch with Heather, she also invited Mark and Stacey (Keelyn’s Sunday School teacher.) They’re both from Canada, he’s working on a Ph.D. in Theology. It was a lovely meal. (I’m learning to use the term “lovely.” Keelyn’s picked up “wee”.)
After lunch, Keelyn played at Botanic Gardens, there’s a pic of her at the gardens. We also saw one of the “wee” cars that Keelyn thinks are funny.
Barry and Lisa are coming tomorrow so we’re excited about that. And I made cornbread last night that was pretty good, we ate half and saved the rest to make stuffing for thanksgiving.

Pretty exciting discovery. Wouldn’t you know some of the earliest archaelogical evidence would be a memorial inscription: “The inscription, which specifies that Aketous donated a table to the church, indicates the house of worship predated the Byzantine era, when Christians began using altars in place of tables in their rituals, Tepper said.”
Seems fitting, most everything in a church has a plaque, “Given in memory of so and so by her grandchildren.”

Well we’ve had a good week. Last Friday we learned Scottish Country Dancing at the International Club. We stayed around the flat Saturday since we had gone to Edinburgh Thursday.
We had communion Sunday at Wellington Church and Monday was Halloween so Keelyn went to Nursery School dressed as an Alabama Cheerleader…don’t think anyone realized what she was dressed as but she was cute. We sure missed the fall festivities at Allsboro.
People have been shooting fireworks constantly the past several days, today is Guy Fawkes night (400th Anniversary of the Gundpowdwer plot actually.) We’re planning on going to the city fireworks display this evening.
We went to the Museum of Modern Art this morning and took some pics, including the one of Keelyn with the Piper.

We made a trip over to Edinburgh today, Keelyn’s first time on a train. Our English friends from Corinth, MS are visiting and caught a train up. Keelyn and Esther had a wonderful time. The weather was beautiful, apparantly a record high today. We walked the royal mile and had tea at Clarinda’s. Good to see some friendly faces from home. Too bad we didn’t have a backgammon set with us.

Well Keelyn finally began attending the Willowbank Nursery School. She’s very excited and happy to have new friends to play with.

Heard about this on Dave Ramsey,pretty funny.

http://www.freestarmedia.com/hotellostliberty2.html

We visited St. Mungo’s cathedral and museum of religious life and art today. Keelyn got to have her first ride on a double decker bus today…something she has been wanting to do since we got here.