New Plan

I have decided I’m going to have to do brief synopsis’s of a day and then go back and give more information with pictures at a later time if I want you to be able to have any idea of what we are up to (while we’re still actually here!). So, if you’re following along, make sure you check and see if I’ve added multiple entries at once. Today I’m typing entries at home on Word and then will hopefully be able to download them quickly once I get to church. At this point, I’ve just had about 15 minutes to update at a time.

Our House

This is the wonderful house we are staying in.
This is part of the street. Our house is on the right.
This is the view from Maddie's roomWe have a wonderful view from our dining room.

Lunch with the Lunch Club at church

We had wonderful food at the Lunch Club, a ministry of the church. The food was wonderful and the fellowship was sweet. This sweet lady even sent a tray of sweets home with us.

Thankfully getting there is NOT half the fun!

Maddie did well on her first flights. She was convinced that she could see the whole world from the plane. She asked halfway through the first flight, "Is someone driving this thing?" She also found out how hard it is to get comfortable on an overnight flight...even when you're little! She did sleep a good bit thankfully!

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!

We're here!!!!

Our travels went well, and we are now in Scotland! It is so beautiful! We have a beautiful house with a beautiful view. We've been shown around a bit and are about to have lunch at church with the Lunch Club. Pictures will follow! We've only been here less than an hour and Annye is already planning a second visit! We love Scotland!

To Scotland we will go!

Can you believe this cute girl turned 7 yesterday?! She also finally lost that loose tooth that just wouldn't quit hanging on!

We are all so excited about heading out today! We are all packed and will spend the morning getting the house ready for the girls to move in today! Too bad we can't just wiggle our noses and snap our fingers and have a clean house and be in Scotland in an instant! Hopefully we'll fill our day with laughter and special times together!

We hope you'll check back in and share this journey with us!