Day 30: Another transition

July 21 –

Today we start to close the Scottish chapter of our adventure. We packed up and got the flat ready to vacate. We have accumulated a few too many souvenirs of our trip so we packed up two large boxes with things to be shipped home. They weighed 14.5 kilos each (!) and cost £117 pounds each to post home! It would have been cheaper to buy an extra plane ticket! But sometimes you have to do what you have to do….

We said our teary goodbyes to the Cannon clan and then hopped in the car and headed west to see my family. I think that Kate and I are officially 2nd or 3rd cousins which makes our kids 3rd or 4th cousins but it doesn’t seem that way. Duncan and Andrew are only months apart and within minutes of our arrival, they were off to Ayr on the train to go bowling (Duncan won!). Gillian and Amy are about 18 months apart but still get on well although sometimes it seems that Gillian has more fun chasing 6 year old Michael around than anything else.

My cousin Susan came by with her two kids: Emily is just 2 and Matthew is 4 months. I got to play with the baby and then hand him back when he started to fuss – my favorite part of being the Auntie! We had a lovely BBQ – even though the rain chased us inside – and consumed much wine, beer, whiskey, etc. I think it was the early hours of the morning before we were finally off to our beds.

/san/

[Pedometer:  8333 steps or about 4 miles.  I refuse to admit how much was stumbling…. ;-)]