Birthday, Thanksgiving, St. Andrew and Advent

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 [...]

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The Lantern Festival

Couldn’t fit these in the last post:

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Loch Lomond and St. Martin’s Lantern Festival

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 [...]

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The Weekend

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 [...]

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Ancient Church Discovered

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 [...]

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Guy Fawkes Night

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 [...]

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