Early Burns Dinner Pics from da U.P.

[MacMullen]

As I posted when I first arrived on the BBS, I was invited to a Burns Dinner at a hunting camp up here in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan. As I post pics, note well that this is a hunting camp, so you'll be seeing a lot of plaid flannel shirts and even longjohns with kilts.

Not on me, of course, but hey, they were kilted! One guy even had a fleece kilt. It didn't look very traditional, but I'll bet it was very warm!

Just to give a quick rundown again on why we had a Burns Dinner in November, the Scots-minded guys at the various cabins up here are from all over Michigan and Wisconsin, and they happened to be in the area for deer hunting. In January, everyone is home and the camps are inaccessible due to the massive snowfall up here. Last January we had to hike over a mile with snowshoes to get into the camp so we could hunt coyotes. So, if we didn't have the dinner now, we wouldn't have the dinner.

The menu was haggis, mixed veggies, scalloped potatoes, and fish stew. Lots of single malt was available, and I brought twelve 1 liter bottles of Stout and Scottish Ale that I brewed for the occasion.

Here's a pre-dinner pic of me (the tall guy) standing with the owner of the camp holding the implement of haggis destruction. Take it easy on him, he was my host. :mrgreen:

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I'll post more pics tomorrow.