Heading to the Highlands -- Again

Tomorrow we'll pile into the not-so-mini-van and hit the highway. This time it's the Isle of Skye or bust -- hopefully it'll be the Isle of Skye. After two nights there, we'll head to Loch Ness and Culloden for two more nights. We can't wait. We'll post pics.

Brenna Has Fish Tea

This is what I THOUGHT I might be eating.Yesterday I had a craving for fish and chips. They're SO good here. We were doing our errands downtown, and saw a likely place. It was actually a fish shop, but has seating in the back where they served a few cooked things. Many of the things on the menu were a variation on Fish Tea: Large Fish Tea, Mini Fish Tea, Dress

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Letterfinlay Lodge - Among Our Favorites So Far

We were driving from Oban towards the Isle Of Skye, along Loch Lochy. I love that name. Loch Lochy! It's fun to say too. Try it: say Lock Locky, but also clear your throat twice at the same time. Fun-huh!

So, we were driving along the beautiful Loch, and we'd gotten a bit of a late start out of Oban, and we were thinking, "Maybe we should

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Bond... James Bond

Did you know that Sean Connery doesn't have an accent anymore? When I say, "anymore," I don't mean that he's suddenly started sounding more like me. I mean now that I'm in Scotland, he sounds kind of normal. I was watching late night BBC recently and, "You Only Live Twice" was on. To my ear his accent was nearly gone. Poof. He sounds just like everyone else around me. The Tesco clerk, the girl at the petrol station -- you name it, they all sound just like Sean Connery. Maybe that's why I like Scotland so much. I wonder, if we end up in Hong Kong, will I feel the same way about Jackie Chan?

Samhain: It's Like Halloween With Turnips and Howling

Happy November 1, or Day After Halloween. Around our home --  no matter where in the world that might be -- it's known as Day of the Sugar Coma.

This year Ella dressed as a vampire. Owen had planned on blackening his eyes and scrawling a "P" on a white t-shirt. Get it? A Black-eyed Pea. Then he found out

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