Thursday, 26 June 2008

St Andrews

For those of you who don't know, I am living in St Andrews, Scotland. Tonight, Tim and I decided to take a walk around the city and ended up at the North Sea. (St Andrews sits on the sea.) I didn't have my camera with me, so I took pictures with my cell phone. I think they turned out pretty nice. I even did a video of the waves crashing. It was beautiful... No wind and the sky was sunny. The longest day is over, but it still doesn't get fully dark at nights. I wish it were a little warmer, but I will take what sun I can get!

Looking out across the sea.



The crash of the sea!


Looking toward St Andrews.
You can see the silhouette of the old cathedral
and St Rules Tower.


Lately there have been TONS of jellyfish washed up along the shore. Today, I did my part and used a rock to save on of them. I pushed it into a small tide pool, which eventually filled with water and the little thing was pushed back to sea. I felt good about it. I wanted to save more, but Tim (who has lived in Hawaii and been stung by a Portuguese Man o' War and I guess it HURTS!!) told me that I shouldn't save them because they sting and because they eat the food that the fish eat. I just think he has something against Jellyfish. I think they are fascinating.

Monday, 23 June 2008

Arbroath Smokies

So I am not very good at keeping up with things I do and places I see.

This weekend, Tim and I decided that we were going to have Arbroath Smokies. Arbroath is a town near St Andrews, it took us 45 minutes to drive there. Once there, we saw several signs for Smokies, but I decided that we had to go to one close to the Harbor deep in the heart of Arbroath! Smokies are smoked haddock and are shown below. That is basically what we ate, it even had the rope wrapped around its tail.

Friday, 20 June 2008

I belong

Today I feel like I belong in St Andrews...

Yesterday I bought two (#1) golf clubs.

True, I will use them to go to the driving range and I bought them from a charity shop, so they were only £1 each, but still...

I own (two) clubs!

Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Weekend Trip to Ben Nevis and Loch Ness

Here is our latest mini-vacation. I put the pictures in order and have almost captioned all of them. :) There are a lot of pictures and a few movies, but worth the look over! :) Hiking up Ben Nevis took 7 hours, was 10.5 miles long, and we climbed 4,609 ft and 6.96063 in (+/- a few inches!)

Ben Nevis Trip