Anyone going to the Pleasanton Highland Games ("The Big One") this weekend?

[Panache]

The San Francisco Caledonia club presents their 149th Highland Games and gathering this coming weekend!

For more information here is the official link

http://www.thescottishgames.com

I'll be there both days. My Scottish Country Dance performance group, The Red Thistle Dancers, have a show at 1:00 on Saturday at the St. Andrews stage. My lovely Flame-Haired Celtic Amazon Goddess and the kids will join me Sunday for general merriment.

Here is a photo from last year's Red Thistle performance



The Norcal Rabble will be there at the XMTS Hospitality tent and we hope to see you there.

So who is in?


Cheers

Jamie

[Richrail]

My wife and I and second son will be in attendance both days. Hope to see you there.

[CeilidhDoc]

Looks like I am going Saturday.

I will also post on the other thread.

See you all there

Slàinte!

[OC Richard]

I'll be there all weekend- actually I'm leaving shortly- with the Long Beach Fire Department Pipe Band.

I always go up early Friday in order to hear the top solo piping competition, which starts around noon, in one of the ballrooms at the San Ramon Mariott.

Cool about the Country Dancing! I was an avid RSCDS member back in the 1980s, was going to three different classes each week, and dances all the time. A bit of trivia most might not know: the Los Angeles Branch of the RSCDS was for many years the largest RSCDS branch in the world... little wonder, it covered a vast area, around five large counties I think, with a population of around 15 million people. Then it splintered into a number of branches. I don't know if that was a good thing or not.

PS perhaps the mods should merge the two different Pleasanton threads?