Day 3

Sorry...still no pictures. But don't worry, I took 500 the first two days alone! I now have the nickname "Snap Happy!" We don't have internet at the house, and we haven't been back at the church. We're at the McKinnons for dinner, and we have internet, but no laptop with all the pictures!

Here's a brief synopsis of what is to come!

After the lunch, we went to a park that has a wonderful playground, a petting zoo, botanical garden and walking trails...and amazingly all was free! The girls loved the zipline at the park the best.

After that, it was about 4 and we went to the house and unpacked. We pretty much hit the wall with tiredness after having very little sleep on the plane. The girls stayed awake by playing with their toys, Jeff downloaded and worked on pictures, and I had to take a walk...it was in the mid 50's, so the brisk air perked me up...the beautiful scenery didn't hurt either. After that we cooked dinner (the church was very gracious and filled the fridge for us!) and went to bed at 8 p.m. Maddie actually slept 14 hours! We were totally amazed....it's VERY un-Maddie!

The second day we went to Edinburgh...which is quite possibly my favorite city I have visited in the world up to this point in my life....John is from Glasgow and is very biased to that, so I'm open to having a new favorite! There is some amazing architecture there and I don't want to say more until I have the pictures to show.

Today, we exchanged money and checked out the mall in East Kilbride while John had a lunch meeting...after that, we went back to the park from the first day, where we repeated some of the first day activities and then took a wonderful hike along a brook.

We're now at the McKinnons for dinner and then will head to a church for a big band concert that has one of the church member's in it.

Today is mine and Jeff's 16th wedding anniversary, and it has been an amazing 16 years and I feel like we have been celebrating in perfect "Mary Beth" ways for the past three days!

Hopefully I can get pictures up on Sunday. We're heading out of town again tomorrow and then to a dinner for small group leaders tomorrow night!