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Hi everyone -
Well it’s here, it’s World Championship day! We are pulling out of here via bus in about forty five minutes. It’s raining right now, just a soft pretty Scottish misty rain, not too cold. Hopefully it will clear and be sunny later as it did yesterday. The band was in lockdown yesterday so I didn’t see them much, although I did find them all practising indoors with chanters and drum pads at one point (when it was still raining). Christopher was in a panic over losing a sock and a flash, I guess the kids had mixed up some of their uniform pieces. I think someone loaned him their extra pieces so hopefully all will be well for today and eventually his own pieces will turn up. That’s the spirit of this little band, everyone helps each other out. I am guessing for the rest of the day that the kids played guitars and sat around, resting and singing their hearts out, and I expect there was another practice last nite. ( we are in separate residences so don’t always see the kids). Jessica did some laundry, maybe others did as well.

The day before, a group got together and went to Stirling Castle. Alas we did not get to see any sword fights but the castle itself was neat. Calvin and Jonothan threated to jump off the stone wall into the moat but since there was no water below I guess they had second thoughts. They enjoyed looking in all the nooks and crannies. I think those two boys have enjoyed the castles more than anyone! Great age to be.

Afterwards we grabbed a bite at one of the favorite eating holes, an old pub called O’Neil’s where some neat old sayings are written on the walls for clients to ponder as they await their meals. One is ‘good things come to those who…wait.’ Another is ‘toilets this way’ and then on the next wall ‘toilets still this way.’ It’s fun! Everyone has enjoyed listening to Scottish accents and I think for me that that is what I will miss the most. They are fun people, these Scots, and they have been very good to all of us.

Well, gotta go get ready to catch that bus into Worlds! My stomach is already fluttering. We will have lots of fans, we met folks briefly last nite who plan to be there – they are pipers and so will give us their honest opinion and we know they will have great things to say about our little PEI band! (if we can just decipher their Scottish brogue, I think they get tired of repeating themselves for us!)

Cheers – send positive energy our way around 1 pm PEI time!
Susan

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